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American South  League of Women Voters and state politicians in
Virginia  Clark talks about Virginia politicians, notably Harry
Byrd and George Walter Mapp. Clark explains that in 1925, the
League of Women Voters supported Mapp in the gubernatorial
election (he ultimately lost to Byrd), because he had been
supportive of women's suffrage as a state senator. Clark
explains that Byrd had not supported women's suffrage, although
she does explain in detail how he later agreed to sponsor the
League's Child Code Commission and its legislative measures.
Citing this Excerpt   Full Text of the Excerpt  I would imagine
at that time that the present Senator Harry Byrd was then
certainly a beginning force in politics, and could you tell me
anything of your relations or the suffragette or League of Women
Voters' relations with Mr. Byrd or any other prominent people?
Specifically, I was thinking in your mentioning the gentleman
from Harrisonburg, was there an attemp