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- Notes is exactly "According to the newspaper articles, Bessie Agnes Dwyer was, <em>inter alia</em>, the first woman of Texas to earn a legal degree, the first woman to enter the library services at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and the first woman to present the name of the presidential candidate to a Party convention."
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DWYER, Miss Bessie Agnes
Bessie Agnes Dwyer, the youngest daughter of Judge Thomas A. Dwyer, was born on September 29, 1866, in Nueces County, Texas. The multi-talented Bessie became the first woman of Texas to earn a legal degree, the first woman to enter the library…