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oystertoadfish posted:(the wife and husband thing holding same office has happened in lower offices before incidentally, usually as a way of appointing a non controversial replacement for a guy who dies in office but i think some have been power couples too and i think at least one of those widows turned out to be a drat good politician and won elections in her own right) yeah, wikipedia has a decent article. it calls out especially margaret chase smith (prominent anti-mccarthyist, first woman to have her name formally considered at a republican nominating convention) and edith rogers (established the WAAC/women's army corps, co-sponsored a bill to allow 20,000 jewish refugees into the us in 1939 and, later, the first GI bill). good times
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