in 1934, mabel e. griswold was appointed secretary of the progressive wisconsin central committee to chairman edwin myrwyn rowlands. she was the first woman executive clerk in the wisconsin governor's office, first for blaine in 1921 and again in 1925, and then, in 1935, for philip f. la follette, this latter appointing her, in 1938, to serve on the wisconsin industrial commission, in boscobel, the only woman to do so, even if the appointment was never confirmed by the senate. she was replaced in 1939 by harry j. burczyk.