One panelist tentatively credits Texas with having the first female secretary of state and describes her tenure as the longest in any state. The period given is 1927 to 1933. A later correction identifies Ross S. Sterling and Dan Moody as the governors she served and Arthur McCallum as her husband. The suggestion that her husband was a governor is explicitly rejected. Her political activism and competence are credited independently of that mistaken marital connection, alongside service as an elector in the 1940 presidential election. A possible confusion with a female governor is raised without resolving that governor's identity.
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A Texas secretary of state's career and a mistaken marital connection
The Texas secretary's career is distinguished from the governorship, with Arthur McCallum identified as her husband rather than a governor.