Maude Duncan

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Maude Duncan was an American newspaperwoman and a former mayor of Winslow, a community in Washington County in northwestern Arkansas.

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".^[1] It was the first in America^{[citation needed]} and stirred up quite a bit of controversy among the citizens.

References

↑ "Petticoat Politics". oldstatehouse.com. Retrieved January 18, 2011.

External links

Winslow, Arkansas Historical Society (dead link)

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