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Posts tagged with Hannah Callowhill Penn

Last Updated: Mar. 08, 2018 · 5:11 p.m.

So if Hannah Callowhill Penn was really more instrumental in PA than William — should we change our name?

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A portrait of Callowhill Penn was hung at the PA Governor's Office in 2015

Meet Hannah Callowhill Penn, PA’s first and only woman leader

William Penn's wife ran Pennsylvania after her husband fell ill — and kicked ass doing it.