Ella A. Boole
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Ella Alexander Boole (July 26, 1858 - March 13, 1952) was a U.S. temperance leader. In 1920 she unsuccessfully challenged James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. for the Republican Party nomination for the United States Senate. After losing the nomination, she ran against Wadsworth and the Democratic and Socialist Party candidates in the general election. Wadsworth won easily with 52% of the vote, while Boole came in third place with 7% of the vote, not far ahead of the Socialist candidate. [1]
Boole was president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1925 to 1933.
- ^ Johnson, Willis Fletcher; Roscoe C. E. (Roscoe Conkling Ensign) Brown, Walter Whipple Spooner, Willis Holly (1922). History of the State of New York, Political and Governmental. The Syracuse Press, 347 - 348, 350.