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Esther Morris
50 years before women got the federal right to vote, Esther Morris became America's first female justice of the peace. A contemporary newspaper called her “the terror of all rogues” and said she offered “infinite delight to all lovers of peace and virtue."
Esther Morris
Fifty years before women got the federal right to vote, this legal agent became “the terror of all rogues.”
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