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A Woman to Know: Nellie Tayloe Ross

A Woman to Know: Nellie Tayloe Ross

As long as my husband lived, it never entered my head, or his, that I would find any vocation outside our home. — Nellie Tayloe Ross

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As long as my husband lived, it never entered my head, or his, that I would find any vocation outside our home. — Nellie Tayloe Ross

(image via The University of Iowa)

October 1924 was a huge month for Nellie Tayloe Ross. First, her husband, the then-governor of Wyoming, passed away suddenly. William had been governor less than two years, and much of the …

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