Frances Squire Potter
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Frances Boardman Squire Potter (November 12, 1867 – March 25, 1914) was an American academic and activist.
Frances Boardman Squire was born on November 12, 1867, in Elmira, New York, to Grace (Smith) and Truman H. Squire.[1][2] She married Winfield S. Potter in 1891.[3]
Potter attended Elmira College as an undergraduate from 1883 to 1887, graduating with an AB, and received a master's degree in 1889.[1][4] She moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, shortly after graduating. Initially she taught high school and then became a professor of English at the University of Minnesota, where she was a full professor from 1907 to 1909.[1][4] She did research on the papers of John Milton at the University of Cambridge while on a leave of absence from her professorship around 1907.[5]
Potter left her professorship to become the corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), after being elected at NAWSA's national convention in 1909.[3] Around that time, she also chaired the literary committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and edited Life and Labor, its magazine.[3]
She died on March 25, 1914, in Chicago.[6]
