Marjorie Burke, 106; Made Most of Right to Vote
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Marjorie Burke, who voted in every presidential election from that of Warren G. Harding to that of George W. Bush, died Saturday in Cazenovia, N.Y. She was 106.
A staunch Republican, Burke made it a point to vote in every primary and election.
A nephew, Thomas Gaughan, said that, even though she was a Republican, she once voted for Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, probably because of the depths of poverty she saw while living in New York City during the Great Depression.
Burke, who never married, graduated from Cortland Normal School and Fordham University. She was a special-education teacher in New York, beginning a few years before the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
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