Placating Mr. Hearst

Millicent Willson married William Randolph Hearst on April 28, 1903. On March 4th— six days later — Mr. Hearst officially became a Congressman. He held office from the Eleventh District of New York in the 58th and 59th Congresses. In 1907, Mr. Hearst's office-holding career came to an end. Since then Millicent Willson Hearst has been known as the wife of a financially successful journalist, and as the original of many photographs in Hearst papers representing a handsome woman attending civic functions and giving baskets of food...

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