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	Pyke, Bernice Secrest Identifier pyke.jpg Title Bernice Secrest Pyke Description A portrait of Bernice Pyke in 1919. "Mrs A.B. Pyke"--photo verso Name Pyke, Bernice Secrest Birth Date 1880-03-22 Death Date 1964-05-10 Accomplishments Bernice Pyke was the first woman to be elected delegate for a national political convention and the first woman to serve in a cabinet for a mayor of Cleveland. She was a delegate for 5 Democratic National Conventions and in 1934 President Franklin Roosevelt appointed her collector of customs for Cleveland. Profession Government Education Subject Pyke, Bernice Secrest Democratic Party Teachers Delegations Date Original 1919-05-01 Time Period Reform and Challenges: 1900-1929 Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entry http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=PBS Additional Resources http://www.lkwdpl.org/history/8biographyM-R.html#0:26 Digital Collection Famous Women of Cleveland Repository Collection Cleveland Press Repository Collection Homepage http://www.clevelandmemory.org/press/ Donor Cole, Joseph E. Repository Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections. Repository Homepage http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/ Copyright http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/ Object Type black-and-white photographs Format JPG
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