- Ella A. Boole
Ella Alexander Boole (
July 26 ,1858 –March 13 ,1952 ) was a U.S. temperance leader. In 1920 she unsuccessfully challengedJames Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. for the Republican Party nomination for theUnited 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. [cite book
last = Johnson
first = Willis Fletcher
authorlink = Willis Fletcher Johnson
coauthors = Roscoe C. E. (Roscoe Conkling Ensign) Brown, Walter Whipple Spooner, Willis Holly
title = History of the State of New York, Political and Governmental
publisher = The Syracuse Press
date = 1922
location =
pages = 347 - 348, 350
url = http://books.google.com/books?as_brr=1&id=NTKXoJKv1uUC&vid=OCLC03658830&dq=%22Farmer+Labor+Party%22&pg=PA350&lpg=PA350&q=Schneiderman+%28Farmer-Labor%29+15%2C086]Boole was president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1925 to 1933.See also
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United States Senate election, 1920 References
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