Jean Murphy, county's first female legislator, ensured women had 'equal shot' in politics

When a trailblazer for women in Dutchess County politics and a champion for the disenfranchised was facing the end of her life, she wrote a note from her hospital bed that her family said read: "If I don't make it, it's been a hell of a ride."

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