Photo courtesy of the National Museum of American History

If you manage to vote early today, stop and consider this fact: were it 1960, you, as a D.C. resident, wouldn’t have been able to cast a ballot for president.

Indeed, it was on November 3, 1964 that D.C. residents were granted the franchise that was, in theory at least, the right of all Americans. Three years earlier, the 23rd Amendment was passed, extended the presidential vote to D.C. residents that had last enjoyed it in 1800.

The article below from the Washington Post, titled “With Sense of Pride, D.C. Residents Troop to Polls,” accurately described the sentiment of the day: