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285:. Lena Madesin Phillips was chosen as the founding president of the IFBPW, which she served as until 1947. Phillips believed that gaining economic equality would enable women to achieve equality in education, social, and political aspects of society. She was quoted saying, " ...if our motive is right, if we have faith, vision and courage, accomplishment must come." In the following decades, Phillips made many trips to Europe on club business until the end of her life in 1955.
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166:, whom he married in 1880. Her middle name was in honor of her father's first wife, Selina (also known as Lena). Her half-siblings were George (born 1863), Arthur (born 1866), Florence (born 1868), and Fleming (born 1870). William and Selina's first child died as an infant.
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