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Fola La Follette

American suffragist

Born on: September 10, 1882
Died on: February 17, 1970
Aged: 87 years 160 days (1049 months)
Birth Sign: Virgo

 

Fola La Follette

Flora Dodge La Follette, known as Fola La Follette, was an American actress and teacher turned women's suffrage and labor activist and editor/author from Madison, Wisconsin.

At the time of her death in 1970, The New York Times quoted her on women's suffrage: "A good husband is not a substitute for the ballot." She was the daughter of progressive politician Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette and lawyer and women's suffrage leader Belle Case, wife of playwright George Middleton, a contributing editor to La Follette’s Weekly Magazine, an actress, and, with her mother, a chronicler of her father's life.


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