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Mrs. R.C. Burleson, Suffragist - 1913. American socialite, artist, and suffragette Jane Walker Burleson, wife of Richard Coke Burleson. She was Grand Marshal of the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 in Washington, DC. She and her husband divorced in 1938. Richard's second wife Isabelle had been named a co-defendant in the divorce. In 1940, Jane shot Isabelle in a South Carolina restaurant, killing her, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison, but released after eight.