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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyFlorence Price DWYER
(1902-1976)
DWYER, Florence Price, a
Representative from New Jersey; born Florence Louise Price, July 4,
1902, in Reading, Berks County, Pa.; attended the public schools in
Reading, Pa., and Toledo, Ohio; special courses at Rutgers Law
School; State legislation chairman of New Jersey Business and
Professional Women; moved to Elizabeth, Union County, N.J.;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1944; member of
the State house of assembly 1950-1956; United States Advisory
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1959-1973; elected as a
Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the seven succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate
for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; retired and
resided in Elizabeth, N.J., where she died February 29, 1976;
interment in St. Gertrude’s Cemetery, Colonia, N.J.
Bibliography
”Florence P. Dwyer” in Women in Congress,
1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on
House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation,
U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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