Career
Wallace was admitted to the bar in 1849. In 1851 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the First Congressional District of Indiana. In 1856, he was elected to the Indiana State Senate after moving his residence to Crawfordsville.
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Famous quotes containing the word career:
“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
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“Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.”
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