<p>Eleanor Peggy (Peggins) Maddieux graduated from Broadway High School in Seattle and became Miss Seattle in 1927. She met Warren G. Magnuson while attending a beauty pageant in Washington D.C. in that same year; they wed in June 1928. Although the marriage lasted only six years due to Magnuson's infidelities, they remained lifelong friends. Peggins willingly delayed the divorce until after the 1934 election in which Magnuson became King County prosecutor, marking the beginning of his 44 years of public service during which he represented the state in the U.S. House and Senate.
In this 1927 photograph, Maddieux is serving coffee to an unidentified man at an event, most likely in her role as Miss Seattle.</p>
<p>Handwritten on image: Miss Seattle [1927].

Caption information sources: Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America; University of Washington Friends of the Libraries.

Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): September 13, 1927.</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Beauty contestants--Washington (State)--Seattle; Coffeepots--Washington (State)--Seattle; Coffee cups--Washington (State)--Seattle</li>
<li>People: Maddieux, Eleanor Peggy (Peggins)</li></ul>
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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