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The 26th amendment was led by 18 year old student activists starting a protest to lower the voting age to 18. The students protested during the Vietnam war. -
Georgia is the first state to lower there voting age and lower there elections all from 21 to 18. -
Harley Kilgore was one of the first senators to be in favor of lowering the voting age. He then got the support of other senators, representatives, and the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Although he had a lot of support in the government Congress didn't pass the bill. -
Eisenhower was the first president to support 18 years with voting. Eisenhower called upon Congress to propose to the States permitting citizens to vote when they reached the age of 18. -
President Richard Nixon signed to extend the voting act. The voting rights act required all states to have the voting age at 18. Yet the law said every state had to have the voting age at 18, the amendment was made to make sure no state could get around the law. -
Nationally standardized minimum age of eighteen for participation in state and federal elections was established and proposed. -
The Senate voted 94-0 to propose an amendment that would change the voting age from 21 to 18. The 26th amendment would guarantee that the voting age could not be higher then the age of 18. -
The amendment was signed off by Robert L. Kunzig who is the General Services Administrator. -
The 26th amendment lowered the voting age for all Americans to 18 which used to be 21 years old.