"No one knows … but God … how much I might have accomplished for human progress during these 20 years I have been forced into silence … forced into idleness … banished into obscurity dense as the tomb."
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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansWomen politicians in the United StatesWomen born in the 1870sPoliticians from Nebraska
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Kate Barnard
Catherine Ann "Kate" Barnard (May 23, 1875 – February 23, 1930) was the first woman to be elected as a state official in Oklahoma, and the eleventh woman to be elected to a statewide public office in the United States, in 1907.
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