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“She was just so smart, and she was in charge and she was energetic,” Klobuchar said. Staples Tuttle went on to win a seat in the Minnesota Senate in 1976, becoming the first DFL woman to do so. She continued to break barriers for women, helping to found the Minnesota Women’s Campaign Fund and the Minnesota Women’s Political Caucus. “I stand on her shoulders,” Klobuchar said. from the University of Minnesota in 1950 and her M.P.A. Her husband, who had served as mayor of Plymouth, remained a Republican. “My dad really supported her,” Staples Thompson said. “Any time Emily Anne knocked on any legislator’s door, whether it was in St. Paul or Washington, D.C., people always welcomed her,” said Carol Engebretson Byrne, president of the local nonprofit Global Minnesota. Among Staples Tuttle’s accomplishments was a family planning program for low-income individuals that last year provided 90,000 people with birth control information, counseled 40,000 people and provided 31,000 people with access to family planning services. She is survived by daughters Thompson of St. Paul and Kathryn Staples of Copake Falls, N.Y.; son Gregory Staples of Norwalk, Conn.; stepsons Andrew, Carl, Jeff and John Tuttle, and 16 grandchildren and stepgrandchildren.