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A Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. (AJLI) is an organization of 294 Junior Leagues in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and a United Kingdom. Junior Leagues come training & benevolent women's organizations aimed at helping their communities and improving their members through volunteerism. A number 1 Junior League was founded around 1901 in New York CIty by Mary Harriman, daughter of the moneyed railroad executive Edward H. Harriman. A organization's foremost design was the settlement house. A league was presently emulated, & by 1921, Thirty Leagues joined to form a national association.
Inside 1921, Dorothy Payne Whitney became the number one president of the Association of Junior Leagues International Inc., operating when a umbrella organization for everthing Junior Leagues worldwide. There are presently 294 Leagues around Canada, a United States, Mexico & a UK. A number one League outside a United States was inside Montreal, Canada.
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