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Lura V. Paine was acting Superintendent of Ada County in Idaho in 1917. She ran on the Republican ticket. Paine was born in 1877. It is possible that she graduated from Beatrice High School in Beatrice Nebraska and received her teaching degree from Colorado State Teachers College in Greeley, Co. In 1909, she moved in Idaho and three years later, she became the principal of Cole School. She held the position for five years. After several terms as Superintendent of Ada County, Paine moved to Oregon where she resumed teaching school and married Silas Preston Hager II.
