When Mary Ellen Withrow first ran for public office, she was not allowed to have a credit card in her name
Today, the 92-year-old Democrat's signature appears on more U.S. paper currency than that of any other person. Just check the Guinness Book of World Records.from her first school board seat in rural Ohio to county, state and then U.S. treasurer is told in a new collection on permanent display at the Marion County Historical Society.
For the museum display, she's chosen a representative cross-section from her political career. Her collection includes bumper stickers, T-shirts — even a nail file — from her campaigns throughout the '70s, ’80s and ’90s, awards and commemorations, photographs, newspaper clippings, office nameplates and a copy of the 1993 pop art poster of former President Bill Clinton by Peter Max. Also on display is the outfit Withrow wore to be sworn in as U.S. treasurer by Clinton in 1994.
She also included in the display the cardboard target at which she took aim during her federal law enforcement training. It proves Withrow an excellent shot. “Yeah, they said I didn’t need a security , just put that on the porch,” she laughed. “So she was a trailblazer that did things to make it easy for the next generations to kind of move along in their career,” Wilson said.
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