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Gladys Pyle

"Portrait of Gladys Pyle"
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The first woman to be elected to the senate without being previously appointed to the United States Congress. She ​​​was also the first woman to hold a congressional office in South Dakota. Her mother, Mary Isabella "Mamie" Shields Pyle, was very active in the national women’s suffrage movement.

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