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Sharlot Hall delievering the Arizona votes to Washington DC in a group photo with U.S. Senator Ralph Cameron of Arizona and others. 

Left to right:  Ida (Spaulding) Cameron (wife of U.S. Arizona Senator Cameron), U.S. Arizona Senator Ralph Cameron, Sharlot M. Hall, B.P. Lester and Mrs. Robert Lincoln Hoyal who was the Director of the Women's Division of the Republican National Committee.

SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL (b. October 27, 1870, d. April 9, 1943) moved from Lincoln County, Kansas to Arizona in 1882. She moved twelve miles southeast of Prescott, Arizona at Lynx Creek, with her father, James Knox Hall, her mother, Adeline Susannah Hall, and her brother, Edward "Ted" V. Hall.

Sharlot became a poet, a writer, a journalist, an associate editor of "Out West" magazine, and served as Arizona's Territorial Historian from 1909-1912. In addition, she became the first steward and curator of the Arizona Governor's Mansion in Prescott, which she eventually turned into a Museum beginning in 1928. Today, she is the namesake of the Sharlot Hall Museum.

RALPH HENRY CAMERON (b. October 21, 1863 - d. February 12, 1953) was an early Arizona politician, lawman, and entrepreneur in Coconino County, and one of the early settlers and developers on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  He was the last Territorial Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives before Arizona statehood, serving 1908-1912.  He served one term as U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1921-1927.  He has been much reviled in later years for his efforts and lawsuits to keep the Grand Canyon from becoming a National Park. 

WILMA E. HOYAL (b. 1896 - d. 1961) was the Director of the Women's Division of the Republican National Committee at the time this photo was taken.  She later became Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee, the first woman to ever hold that post.  She was married to Robert Lincoln Hoyal, a jeweler.

BERNADOTTE PERRIN LESTER (b. 1896 - d. 1974) was a prominent investment banker and attorney, who was a friend of Ralph Cameron.