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| Handbill, c. 1967, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
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. Gertrudes Cemetery, Colonia, N.J.
BibliographyFlorence 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.
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