Alice Emmert

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Alice Emmert
Alice Emmert was elected County Superintendent of Public Instruction for Marion County, Texas in 1908. Emmert was elected several times to the position and retired in 1920. In the mid 1920s Alice and her sister took boarders into their home, including the future first lady, a young Lady Bird Johnson. Johnson later reported that the Emmert sisters were "real scholars" and had read everything.

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