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Frances Boardman (Squire) Potter was an educator, writer, and lecturer. In 1900 she was appointed to the Literature Department at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. In 1909, she left her position and joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association as corresponding secretary in New York. Later, she became a national lecturer for the Women's Trade Union League and the Chairman of the Department of Literature and Library Extension for the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
In this address given before the Political Equality League of Chicago, Potter urges women to fight for the ballot so all women will experience economic independence.