Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977

LC control no.	n 88212030
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bingham, Frances Payne, 1885-1977
Birth date	18850329
Death date	19770309
Place of birth	Cleveland, Ohio
Place of death	Lyndhurst, Ohio
Affiliation	Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union United Nations. General Assembly United States. Congress. House
Found in	Western Reserves Hist. Society. Library. An introduction to the Frances Payne Bolton papers, 1989: CIP t.p. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, July 16, 2013 (Bolton, Frances Payne (1885-1977); a Representative from Ohio; born Francis Payne Bingham on March 29, 1885 in Cleveland, Ohio; attended private schools in the United States and France; active in public health, nursing education and other social service, education, and philanthropic work; vice regent for Ohio of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association; member of the Republican State central committee, 1937-1940; delegate to Republican National Conventions and member of Resolutions Committee, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968; first woman appointed as congressional delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, 1953; elected as a Republican by special election, February 27, 1940, to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Chester C. Bolton; reelected to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and served from February 27, 1940, to January 3, 1969; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress; resided in Lyndhurst, Ohio, where she died March 9, 1977)