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===Political leaders=== Caswell County has produced notable political leaders throughout its history. Such politicians include [[Donna Edwards]], [[Archibald Murphey|Archibald Debow Murphey]], [[Romulus Mitchell Saunders]], and [[Bartlett Yancey, Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Edwards, Donna - Biographical Information|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/E000290|website=bioguide.congress.gov|access-date=November 13, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/murphey-archibald-debow|title=Murphey, Archibald Debow|access-date=November 13, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000078|title=Saunders, Romulus Mitchell - Biographical Information|website=bioguide.congress.gov|access-date=November 13, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Y000001|title=Yancey, Bartlett - Biographical Information|website=bioguide.congress.gov|access-date=November 13, 2022}}</ref> Legislators from the county had considerable influence on state politics during the first half of the 19th century.<ref name="auto3"/> Bartlett Yancey was speaker of the [[North Carolina Senate]] from 1817 to 1827. Romulus Mitchell Saunders was concurrently speaker of the [[North Carolina House of Commons]] from 1819 to 1820.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/saunders-romulus-mitchell|title=Saunders, Romulus Mitchell|access-date=November 13, 2022}}</ref> Archibald D. Murphey has been called the "Father of Education" in North Carolina. Serving as a state senator, he proposed a publicly financed system of education in 1817. Murphey also made proposals regarding [[internal improvements]] and constitutional reform.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/5114|title=Archibald Murphey β North Carolina Digital History|access-date=August 5, 2021}}</ref> Donna Edwards is a former U.S. congresswoman. Before entering [[U.S. Congress|Congress]], she was the executive director of the [[National Network to End Domestic Violence]], which provides advocacy and legal support to [[Domestic violence|battered women]]. She worked to pass the [[Violence Against Women Act of 1994]]. In 2015, Edwards and other members of Congress introduced the Restoring Education and Learning Act (REAL Act) to reinstate [[Pell Grant]]s to prisoners.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2711979|title=Keeping It REAL: Why Congress Must Act to Restore Pell Grant Funding for Prisoners|date=January 6, 2016 |ssrn=2711979 |access-date=August 5, 2021}}</ref>
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