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Mary Brown Wanamaker

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Wanamaker, c. 1922

Mary Brown Wanamaker Warburton (1869 – November 18, 1954) was an American social and political leader. She was the first woman to head the Pennsylvania Republican Committee.[1] She was a daughter of U.S. Postmaster General John Wanamaker and wife of publisher Barclay Harding Warburton I.[2]

Wanamaker was noted for her civil rights activity and southern newspapers wrote scandalously about her when, in 1905, Booker T. Washington was invited to dine with her family at a hotel and he escorted her to the table, arm-in-arm.[3]

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  1. "Mrs. Warburton Presides; First Woman to Sit at Head of Pennsylvania Republican Committee". The New York Times. June 19, 1921. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  2. "' Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton Is Dead at 85; A Leader in Welfare Work and Politics". The New York Times. November 18, 1954. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  3. Burns, Rebecca (2006). Rage in the Gate City The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. Emmis Books. p. 95. ISBN 9781578602681.