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Podcast: The Preamble
Episode: 103. Wyoming: The Grit and Tenacity of Nellie Tayloe Ross with Natalie Hodson
Description: In this episode, Sharon and former Idaho fishing state record-holder Natalie Hodson sit down together to talk about Wyoming’s first female governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross. Nellie was the kind of person who was born to break barriers, and when her husband died in office, Nellie ran in a special election to take his place as governor of the state of Wyoming, becoming the first woman governor in the nation. But it was just the beginning of her long political career as Nellie moved her way east to Washington DC. In 1933, President Franklin D Roosevelt appointed her another barrier-breaking position: sh...