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You only have to look at the smirk on Sharlot Hall’s face to know she just bested nasty men who thought women didn’t belong in photos like this—the 1909 cabinet of Territorial Governor Richard Sloan. He fired a man to give her the job of Arizona Historian, making her one of the first American women to hold a government position.

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