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Bessie Agnes Dwyer, the youngest daughter of Judge Thomas A. Dwyer, was born on September 29, 1866, in Nueces County, Texas. The multi-talented Bessie became the first woman of Texas to earn a legal degree, the first woman to enter the library services at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the first woman to present the name of the presidential candidate to a Party convention. Bessie passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in the Philippines during World War II.
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Official report of the proceedings of the Democratic national convention, held in San Francisco, California, June 28, 29, 30, July 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, 1920, resulting in the nomination of Hon. James M. Cox (of Ohio) for president and Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt (of New York) for vice-president.
[Elihu Root collection of United States documents relating to the Philippine Islands] v. 103 Published 1906
Melissa Gilbert Wiedenfeld, Women in the Texas Farmers' Alliance (M.A. thesis, Texas Tech University, 1983).
Women in Print Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand
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