Flowers, Montaville (1866-1934)

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Montaville Flowers to Jane Addams, ca. July 1913

Montaville Flowers to Jane Addams, July 11, 1913

Montaville Flowers to Jane Addams, October 17, 1913

Montaville Flowers to Jane Addams, October 18, 1913

Report and Resignation of Paxton Hibben, Bureau of Education, Progressive National Service, November 18, 1913

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1868-01-07

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1934-11-10

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Cincinnati, OH

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Montaville Flowers was a civic leader, public speaker and politician from Ohio. Flowers was involved in school extension work at the University of Cincinnati in 1891-94. He was a Republican politician who followed the Progressive Party in 1912, serving as head of its speakers bureau in 1913-1914. Flowers ran as a Republican candidate for Congress in 1918 but was defeated. Flowers was a popular public speaker on the Chautauqua circuit. He represented the anti-immigration side of the Japanese immigration debate in his book, The Japanese Conquest of American Opinion (1913). He also edited a series of lectures on What Every American Should Know about War (1918).

He married Eva Keller in 1890. They had four children. Flowers died in 1934.