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Gertrude Dills McKee
Gertrude Dills McKee (June 8, 1885 – November 27, 1948) was a civic leader and politician from North Carolina. She was the first woman elected to the North Carolina State Senate.
==Life and career==
McKee, known around Jackson County as "Gert" and "Miss Gert",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gertrude Dills McKee )〕 was born and raised in Dillsboro, North Carolina,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gertrude Dills Mckee )〕 which had been founded by her father, William Allen Dills, on a portion of his own farmland. Dills was a prominent local businessman and politician who represented Jackson County in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1889;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=McKee, Gertrude Dills )〕 his wife, Gertrude's mother, Alice Enloe Dills, was a member of a prominent western North Carolina family as well.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Political Pioneer )〕 McKee attended the local public school before continuing on to Peace Institute in Raleigh; there she became class president before graduating in 1905.〔 After graduation she began work as a schoolteacher at the Dillsboro Graded School in her hometown.〔 In 1913 she married a widower from nearby Sylva, Ernest Lyndon McKee, becoming stepmother to his son; she and her husband would have two further children, William Dills and Ernest Lyndon, Jr. Her new husband was a businessman with various interests in and around Sylva.〔 In 1923 the couple purchased the former summer estate of South Carolina Governor Wade Hampton III, turning it into a resort known as the High Hampton Inn.〔
As the wife of a prominent local businessman McKee soon became active in many local clubs and civic organizations. During World War I she led Liberty bond drives and organized local assistance to the Salvation Army. She served as president of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs between 1925 and 1927, and from 1928 to 1930 led the state's chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.〔 In 1925 McKee managed to persuade Governor Angus McLean to sponsor a study about the conditions of women in industry, something which he had previously refused to do. This was cancelled the following year, but the governor appointed her to the North Carolina Educational Commission, where she served an eight-month term.〔 From 1926 to 1928 she led the Southern Council of Club Women; from 1927 to 1929 she served on the County Government Commission while presiding over the Southeastern Council of Federated Club Women. In 1931 she joined the Commission for Consolidation of The University of North Carolina, and from 1933 to 1935 she chaired the Board of Education in Jackson County. 〔 In 1928 she was a member of the circle of women who founded the first library in the town of Sylva.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Portraits of high office-holders unveiled )〕 Throughout her public career she held various trusteeships, including at Western Carolina Teachers College, Peace College, the University of North Carolina, and Brevard College. She was also a member of the State Board of Public Welfare. McKee was also prominent in the Sylva Methodist Church, in whose choir she sang and at which she played the piano; she was also recognized locally for her skills as a homemaker.〔
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