biography
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Blair, Emily Jane Newell
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| female
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| lived:
| (1877–1951)
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| biography:
| Political activist and writer, born in Japon, Montana, USA. She attended college, married, and published fiction before beginning her political career as a suffragist (1914). After rising to national vice-chairman of the Democratic Party (1922–8), she worked to elect women to public office. A prolific writer, she was also appointed to several high-level governmental posts in the 1930s and 1940s. |
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