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Fanny Neal Yarborough Bickett was an American social worker, public official, lawyer, and lobbyist. She served as the First Lady of North Carolina from 1917 to 1921, as the wife of Governor Thomas W. Bickett, and used her influence in his administration to enact social reforms and support women's suffrage. During World War I, she maintained a victory garden at the North Carolina Executive Mansion and promoted home gardens to support the war effort. Bickett was the commandant of the Southeastern District of the U.S. Training Corps and visited American troops in France as a representative of the YMCA.
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Sarah Heritage Caswell (1740–1794) was the first and fifth First Lady of the State North Carolina, as the wife of Governor Richard Caswell, from 1776 to 1780 and from 1785 to 1787.
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