Judith Ellen Foster

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Judith Ellen (Horton) Foster (1840-1910) was an American lecturer, born at Lowell, Mass. She removed to Iowa, studied law, and was admitted to the State bar in 1872. She also became superintendent of the Legislative Department of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and when that organization was affiliated with the Prohibition party, identified herself with the Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of which she became president. She was a popular lecturer on various topics and published a Constitutional Amendment Manual (1882). In 1907 she was appointed a special agent of the Federal Department of Justice.

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