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Margaret Swiggett won election as Trego County, Kansas register of deeds in 1906, 1908, and 1910. In 1918 she was an Independent candidate for County Register of Deeds. She lost to the Democratic candidate. Swiggett remained single and lived in a house shared with her brother, Walter F., also single, who was elected probate judge and who served for many years as justice of the peace.