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Abstract:
Lillian Exum Clement of Asheville could not vote in 1920, yet she became the first woman to win a seat in the North Carolina General Assembly and the first female legislator in the South. The vote was 10,368 to 41. She was also the first women lawyer in the state to open her own law office.