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| | Margaret Chase Smith Library - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Margaret Chase Smith was born in Skowhegan, Maine, on December 14, 1897. |
 | | Senator Smith came to national attention on June 1, 1950, when she became the first member of the Senate to denounce the tactics used by colleague Joseph McCarthy in his anticommunist crusade. |
 | | The Margaret Chase Smith Library opened in 1982 and for the next dozen years, she presided over the facility, meeting with admirers, former constituents, politicians, policymakers, researchers, and school children. |
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