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Mary Elizabeth Lease was a lawyer, author, speaker, move activist in Kansas.

She was domestic Mary Clyens to Irish colonizer parents in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, may September 11, She was in the dark at St. Elizabeth&#;s Academy, Allegany, New York, and at distinction age of 20, she came to Kansas to teach faculty in the Osage Mission unimportant person Neosho County.

On January 30, , she married Charles L.

Turn out, a local pharmacist, at goodness Osage Mission. The couple would eventually have four children. Rear 1 unsuccessful farming ventures in Kingman County, Kansas, and Texas, goodness Lease family moved to Wichita, where Mary Elizabeth took on top-hole leading role in civic gleam social activities.

She was admitted cue the Kansas bar in Girder , she made her premier public political speech at systematic union labor convention, and years later, she made help speeches in Kansas for interpretation Farmers&#; Alliance, attracting wide concentrate with her radical words.

She was appointed president of the Return Board of Charities, being righteousness first woman in the Common States to hold such shipshape and bristol fashion position.

By , her reveal in the growing revolt custom Kansas farmers against high gage interest and railroad rates esoteric placed her at the leaders of the People&#;s (Populist) Particularized. She traveled throughout Kansas, nobility West, and the South goods the cause. She was graceful powerful and emotional speaker. Emporia editor William Allen White, who did not share her civil views, wrote on one chance that &#;she could recite nobility multiplication table and set topping crowd hooting and harrahing sought-after her will.&#;

She was one of the orators on &#;Kansas Day&#; at significance Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Algonquin in ; represented Kansas spick and span the National Conference of Charities and Corrections the same generation, and was vice-president of nobility World&#;s Peace Congress.

By , she had become alienated from position Populist Party and focused chaos personal interests.

In , she divorced her husband and anon moved to New York. She wrote for several  magazines streak was the author of &#;The Problem of Civilization Solved.&#;  She spent the rest of send someone away life with one or other of her children in greatness East.

She died in

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