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"Angie Josephine King"

Angie Josephine KING: Third woman lawyer in Wisconsin, and first admitted to practice before
the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Ran for Janesville postmaster.She won by a majority of votes after a "wild campaign" wherein "boys paraded the streets with banners and transparencies bearing all manner of ludicrous cartoons and mottoes." However, Congressman Hopkins declined to endorse her. She visited newly-elected President U. S. Grant and presented her case, but Grant declined to act without Hopkins' support.
 
[From "Remembering those who helped shaped Janesville," The Janesville Gazette, August 14, 1985, p. 7K]
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