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Maude Duncan was an American newspaperwoman and a former mayor of Winslow, a community in Washington County in northwestern Arkansas.
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Early life
Maude Duncan was born to a well-to-do family in Virginia. There she met and married her husband and followed him to Winslow, where he started a newspaper, the Winslow American.
Newspaper publisher
In 1919, her husband died. She continued his work by writing, editing, selling advertising, and publishing the newspaper. This she did with a manual printing press.
Petticoat Government
In 1925, she ran for mayor and was elected, along with an all-woman government, which became known as the "Petticoat Government". It was the first in America and stirred up quite a bit of controversy among the citizens.
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