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DeVerne Lee Calloway

1916–1993

United States

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DeVerne Lee Calloway (June 17, 1916 – January 23, 1993) was an American politician who was the first black woman to serve in the Missouri state legislature. She served as a Missouri state representative. Calloway was educated at the Seventh Day Adventist Grammar School, LeMoyne College in Memphis, Atlanta University, Northwestern University, Pioneer Business Institute in Philadelphia, and Pendle Hill, a Quaker School in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

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