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Mary B. Hyde was a Socialist party candidate for County Clerk, Chenango County, New York in 1918. She received only a few votes. That year Hyde was elected as the secretary of the state Prohibition party. Hyde was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and also Republican party activists. By 1925 she was president of the Afton (her home town) Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She later served as the treasurer of her local Baptist Church.