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Mother, Ada Mae “M.O.” Wilkey Day, dies, age 85

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Elected Majority Leader of Arizona State Senate, becoming the first woman to hold that position in any state senate in the country

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Serves as Arizona co-chairman of President Richard Nixon re-election campaign

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Begins work as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona

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O’Connor House original site plan

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Original site plan of O’Connor House

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President Reagan letter of nomination

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President Ronald Reagan letter of nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court.

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Letter to Carl Kunasek

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New York Times Magazine cover

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Judge O’Connor with Barry Goldwater at Nomination hearings

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Judge O’Connor with Senator Barry Goldwater at O’Connor nomination hearings, September 1981.

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Carl Kunasek with Justice O’Connor

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