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Woman Pioneer Annie Baxter First Public Officeholder
Carthage records recount Annie Baxter as Jasper County clerk from 1890 to 1894, the first woman elected to public office in the United States. She helped supervise courthouse projects, earned praise from state officials, and later held state roles before dying in 1944.
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Callie Miessner
Carthage
Associated Press
Jasper County
Missouri
Annie Baxter
Missouri Supreme Court
Annie
Joplin
John B. White
Pennsylvania
Carthage Banner
White
Recorder’s
Collector’s
Charles W. Baxter
The
Banner
James T. Quarrels
School of Fine Arts
University of Missouri At Columbia
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