Sarah T. Hughes.

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Sarah T. Hughes.

1900-

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Collected by the Woman's Collection, Texas Woman's University Library, Denton, Texas. Part of the Texas Women's Biofile. May contain clippings, pamphlets, etc. Attorney, judge, legislator, and women's rights activist. First woman appointed district judge in Texas. Administered the oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One. Inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame, 1984.

2 vertical file folders ; 30 cm.

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Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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Hughes, Sarah Tilghman, 1896-1985

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Sarah T. Hughes, jurist, politician, and feminist, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 2, 1896, daughter of James Cooke and Elizabeth (Haughton) Tilghman. Her parents were descended from colonial families that immigrated to North America in the 1660s. She attended public schools in Baltimore and in 1917 graduated from Goucher College with an A.B. in biology. After two years of teaching science at Salem Academy, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she enrolled in the George Washington Universit...