Ella A. Boole

Ella Alexander Boole (July 26, 1858 - March 13, 1952) was a American temperance leader. She served as head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1931 to 1947.[1]

Biography

She was born as Ella Alexander on July 26, 1858 in Van Wert, Ohio. She married Reverend William H. Boole of the Willet Street Methodist Church on July 3, 1883. He husband died in 1896 and she became a deaconess in his church.[1][2]

In 1920, she unsuccessfully challenged James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. for the Republican Party nomination for the United States Senate. After losing the nomination, she ran as a candidate for the Prohibition Party against Wadsworth and the Democratic and Socialist Party candidates in the general election. Wadsworth won easily with 52% of the vote, while Boole came in third place with 7% of the vote, not far ahead of the Socialist candidate.[3]

Boole served as head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1931 to 1947.[1] She died on March 13, 1952 at age 93.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "President of WCTU For 16 Years Dies". Associated Press. March 14, 1952. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aW9gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LXINAAAAIBAJ&pg=5387,2094672&dq=mrs-ella-alexander-boole&hl=en. Retrieved 2011-05-03. "Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, on here March 13, was president of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union for 16 years and once a candidate for the ..." 
  2. ^ "William H. Boole". New York Times. February 26, 1896. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A10FD3F5F1B738DDDAC0A94DA405B8685F0D3. Retrieved 2011-05-03. "William H. Boole. The Rev. William H. Boole, D.D., a prominent clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church and widely known as a temperance lecturer and evangelist, died at 1 o'clock yesterday morning at his Home, Prohibition Park, Staten Island. Dr. Boole, who was sixty-eight years old, had been slightly indisposed for a week, but was preparing to fill several engagements to lecture this week. ..." 
  3. ^ Willis Fletcher Johnson; Roscoe Conkling Ensign Brown, Walter Whipple Spooner, Willis Holly (1922). History of the State of New York, Political and Governmental. The Syracuse Press. pp. 347–348, 350. http://books.google.com/books?id=NTKXoJKv1uUC&vid=OCLC03658830&dq=%22Farmer+Labor+Party%22&pg=PA350&lpg=PA350&q=Schneiderman+%28Farmer-Labor%29+15%2C086.