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Also Known As Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson • Ma Ferguson
Born June 13, 1875 • Texas
Died June 25, 1961 (aged 86) • Austin • Texas
Title / Office governor (1933-1935), Texas • governor (1925), Texas
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