Porter, Florence Collins (1853-1930)

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Progressive Party Convention (1912)

Florence C. Porter to Jane Addams, August 16, 1912

Jane Addams Chorus Certificate of Membership, August 26, 1912

Mary Moore Flint to Jane Addams, August 23, 1913

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Birth Date

1853-08-14

Death Date

1930-12-31

Birthplace

Caribou, ME

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Florence Collins Porter was a Pasadena suffragist and temperance worker. Porter was a politically active Republican, founder of the Women's Republican Party of New York, and selected to the second nomination of Calvin Coolidge at the 1924 Republican Convention. Porter campaigned for Herbert Hoover in 1928. During the 1912 election, she switched her allegiance to the Progressive Party and was a delegate to the Convention.

Porter married Charles W. Porter in 1873. They had two children, Florence Porter Hartzell and Charles. Porter died in 1930.