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Margaret Zane Witcher was elected County Clerk of Salt Lake County, Utah in 1908. She acted as her own campaign manager. One of her first acts in office was to ban smoking in the County Clerk's office. She was elected to the office again in 1910. Rose L. Ward wrote a campaign song for Witcher's 1910 race which was sung at the Women's Republican Committee meeting in Salt Lake City. Witcher did not run for a third term in the Clerk's office, but instead tried for the Republican nomination for State Treasurer. She lost the vote at the party convention. Instead Witcher was nominated by the Republicans as a Presidential Elector. She later worked with the National Woman's Party. Witcher later married and is also known under her married name of Cherdron. She continued working on political issues and was prominent with the League of Women Voters.
