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โ€œBrother Exumโ€ Takes Her Seat, 1921

North Carolina This Day in History -- History has been made withย the election ofย 127 women in Congress. On this date in 1921, history was made, the first woman to hold legislative office in the South. ย  NC DN On January 5, 1921, Lillian Exum Clement took her seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives, becoming the first woman in the South to hold legislative office. Clement was born in Black Mountain in 1886, and she worked in the Buncom...

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