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graphic mock-up of the road from Nevada to Washington, D.C. that appeared in Senator Paul Laxalt's Washington Update newsletter from 1983 (83-01_5_2_1087, Special Collections and University Archives)

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Barbara Vucanovich sitting before an American flag. ID: 96-54_10_264

Nevada’s Silver Lady

“Nevada’s Silver Lady: Barbara Vucanovich and Nevada Women in Politics” is now on display throughout the third floor of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. Vucanovich was the first Nevada woman elected to federal office, serving in the US House of Representatives from 1983 to 1997. Get a glimpse of the many facets of her decades of service; and meet some of the other Nevada women in political office between 1918 and the present day.

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