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Emily Murphy is one of the most well known women who protested in 1927 for women to have the right to vote. Emily Murphy is one of the Famous Five, who were 5 women who fought recklessly to have women declared persons. The Famous Five consisted of Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, and Irene Parlby, and they launched the case stating that women should be declared persons, making them eligible to sit in the senate and vote.

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