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#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 1648, Margaret Brent demands the right to sit on the Maryland council in her dual roles as a land-owner and Lord Baltimore's attorney. She was denied her place, and left saying she "protested against all proceedings in this present assembly unless she may be present and have vote."

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#OnThisDay, 4 Mar 1933, Frances Perkins is sworn in as Secretary of Labor: the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the USA.

She was a workers-rights activist and key builder of the New Deal. She was in FDR's cabinet for all four terms of his Presidency.

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