Florence Wood Hanby

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Florence Wood Hanby (April 18, 1870 – February 22, 1963{{cite web|title=Florence M. Wood Hanby (1870-1963)|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60339709|website=Find a Grave|accessdate=27 April 2018}}) was a politician representing New Castle County, Delaware, United States.

Hanby was the first woman elected to the Delaware General Assembly, winning a seat in the Delaware House of Representatives in 1924.{{cite web | title = Woman Wielding Power: Pioneer Female State Legislators | publisher = National Women's History Museum | url = https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/legislators/Delaware.html | accessdate = 22 December 2015 | archive-date = 6 September 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150906091405/https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/legislators/Delaware.html | url-status = dead }}{{cite book | last = Weatherford | first = Doris | title = Women in American Politics: History and Milestones | publisher = SAGE | year = 2012 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wW5wumFHKSEC&pg=PP1 | pages = 96| isbn = 9781608710072 }}

Career

Hanby was a Republican representing Brandywine Hundred in New Castle County.{{cite book | last = Hoffecker | first = Carol E. | title = Democracy in Delaware: The Story of the First State's General Assembly | publisher = Cedar Tree Books | year = 2004 | url = http://archives.delaware.gov/eBooks/Hoffecker/DemocracyInDelaware.pdf | pages = 173

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Hanby was greeted cordially by her fellow assembly members. Upon arriving at the State House in January 1925, two floral bouquets were on her desk, to which she remarked, "it looks like a second wedding".{{rp|173}}

While in office, Hanby advocated to help victims of tuberculosis, and introduced the "Hope Farm Bill" to provide funding for an anti-tuberculosis hospital at Hope Farm, near Marshallton.{{cite book | last1 = Lewis | first1 = W. David | year = 1971 | editor1-last = James | editor1-first = Edward T. | editor2-last = James | editor2-first = Janet Wilson | editor3-last = Boyer | editor3-first = Paul S. | title = Bissell, Emily Perkins | work = Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rVLOhGt1BX0C&pg=PP1 | publisher = Harvard University Press | page = 153| isbn = 9780674627345 }}

Sources

Category:1870 births

Category:1963 deaths

Category:Republican Party members of the Delaware House of Representatives

Category:Women state legislators in Delaware

Category:Place of birth missing

Category:20th-century members of the Delaware General Assembly

Category:20th-century American women politicians