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Mary A. Yeager was Citizens Party candidate for Town Trustee in Lakeside, Jefferson County, Colorado in 1909. The Citizens ticket swept the Republicans out of office that year. Yeager's husband, John Yeager was elected mayor of the town in the same race. Both Yeager's had originally been supporters of the previous Republican town officers. Mary had been appointed as one of the judges of election in 1907 and had been a delegate to a party convention.