As the cold temperatures of January 1919 settled in, an epic showdown between two New Jersey icons was taking place. The state’s former governor, now U.S. president Woodrow Wilson was in France negotiating the treaty to end World War I while at home, a Burlington County woman, Alice Paul, and the National Woman’s Party were doing everything they could think of to get an amendment to the Constitution passed so that all American women could vote for president in 1920.

Wilson’s Democratic Party had blocked the amendment in the Senate in September and would hold control of the chamber…