Mamie Shields Pyle
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Mary "Mamie" Shields Pyle was a women's suffrage leader in the U.S. state of South Dakota. She was instrumental in the state's enactment of women's suffrage in 1918.
Pyle, 1949
Peter Norbeck
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Peter Norbeck was an American politician from South Dakota. After serving two terms as the ninth governor of South Dakota, he was elected to three consecutive terms as a United States senator.
Mamie Shields Pyle
…legislature passed a woman's suffrage bill for the seventh and final time in 1917. By March 1918, the United States had entered World War I and Governor Peter Norbeck was concerned with how non-citizens would vote given 22% of the state population had German heritage. Norbeck called a special session of the legislature…
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