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Mary "Mamie" Shields Pyle was a suffrage leader in South Dakota.

Early career and marriage
Shields married attorney and politician John L. Pyle.

Suffrage leader
Pyle rose to prominence in the suffrage movement after the defeat of the women's suffrage amendment in November 1910. Unlike other suffrage leaders in the state, Pyle had not been active in the temperance movement, and stressed that suffrage and temperance should remain separate issues.