biography
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McGee, Anita Newcomb
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1864–1940)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Appointed assistant army surgeon in 1898, the first woman to hold such a position, she organized the Army Nurse Corps (1898–1900) for service in the Spanish-American War and thereafter. |
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