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  • Fri. Oct 25th, 2024
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    Ohio's first female speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Jo Ann Davidson, a champion of GOP women, has died at age 97
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    Ohio's first female speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Jo Ann Davidson, a champion of GOP women, has died at age 97

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first female speaker of the House of Representatives and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died Friday. She was 97. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a longtime friend, announced Davidson's death in a statement, calling her “an exemplary public servant of wit, intelligence, class […]

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