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TIL about Charlotte Woodward Pierce, who attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention (in favor of women's rights) as a teenager and was its only attendant to live long enough to see women get the right to vote in 1920. She was 91 then and her failing health prevented her from voting that year.

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