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...year-old attorney from Pittsburgh, Miss Blatt rose through the state Democratic ranks, until in 1954 she became the first woman elected to statewide office in Pennsylvania. She has been re-elected twice, and in 1962 she was the sole Democratic survivor of a GOP victoryalat put Scranton in Harrisburg. When she did not get state organization backing last spring, she entered the Democratic Senatorial primary against State Supreme Court Justice Michael Angelo Musmanno, at the urging of her mentor, Sen. Joseph S. Clark. After months of fighting in the courts, she was declared the nominee with a margin...
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