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Mary Brown Wanamaker
American social and political leader / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Brown Wanamaker Warburton (1869 – November 18, 1954) was an American social and political leader. She was the first woman to head the Pennsylvania Republican Committee.[1] She was a daughter of U.S. Postmaster General John Wanamaker and wife of publisher Barclay Harding Warburton I.[2]
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Wanamaker was noted for her civil rights activity and southern newspapers wrote scandalously about her when, in 1905, Booker T. Washington was invited to dine with her family at a hotel and he escorted her to the table, arm-in-arm.[3]