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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioFrances Payne BOLTON
(1885-1977)
BOLTON, Frances Payne,
(wife of Chester C. Bolton, granddaughter of Henry B. Payne, and
mother of Oliver P. Bolton), a Representative from Ohio; born
Francis Payne Bingham, March 29, 1885, in Cleveland, Ohio; attended
private schools in United States and France; active in public
health, nursing education and other social service, education, and
philanthropic work; vice regent for Ohio of the Mount Vernon
Ladies’ Association; member of the Republican State central
committee, 1937-1940; delegate to Republican National Conventions
and member of Resolutions Committee, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968;
first woman appointed as congressional delegate to United Nations
General Assembly, 1953; elected as a Republican by special
election, February 27, 1940, to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Chester C. Bolton;
reelected to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and served from
February 27, 1940, to January 3, 1969; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress; resided in
Lyndhurst, Ohio, where she died March 9, 1977; interment in Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
Bibliography
Loth, David. A Long Way Forward: The Biography of Congresswoman
Frances P. Bolton. New York: Longmans, Green, 1957.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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