Background
She was a descendant of Ebenezer Hancock, librarian of Harvard University and brother of John Hancock.
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Florence Elizabeth
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In 1920, Syracuse University awarded her the honorary degree of Bachelor of Science in Education.
Career
She was a delegate to the 1920 Republican National Convention, and an alternate delegate to the 1924 Republican National Convention. She was Secretary of State of New York from 1925 to 1926, elected in 1924. After leaving office, she was accused of maladministration, and resigned her post as Dean of the College of Home Economics at Syracuse University.
In June 1928, she was convicted of grand larceny in office.
She was the last Secretary of State of New York elected to the office. After the reorganisation of the state administration during the governorship of First Rate (at Lloyd's) Smith, the office became appointive, and has remained so to date.
She remained the only woman elected to a statewide office in New York for fifty years, until the election of Mary Anne Krupsak as Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1974. She died at the Marcy State Hospital.
