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Florence Kasumba is an Ugandan-born actress. She is best known for her portrayal of the character Ayo in several Marvel movies, including the Black Panther and Avengers films.
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I think of Florence Nightingale, or Florence Pugh (a really talented English actress). I also think of the Italian city of course.
It’s very elegant and beautiful. It’s almost too much though, I wish there was a good nickname to go along with it. Unfortunately Progressive commercials have forever ruined the name ‘Flo’ for me.
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It’s very elegant and beautiful. It’s almost too much though, I wish there was a good nickname to go along with it. Unfortunately Progressive commercials have forever ruined the name ‘Flo’ for me.
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One contemporary political commentator said of Representative Florence Prag Kahn, "Congress treats her like a man, fears her, admires her, and listens to her." In a body where women numbered in the single digits, this was intended as high praise.
Florence Prag was born in Utah in 1866, the daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants. The family moved to San Francisco when Prag was young. In San Francisco, Prag's mother Mary became a local political operative, serving on the San Francisco Board of Education. Prag attended UC Berkeley, graduating with a degree in 1887. She became a teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco.
In 1899, Prag married Julius Kahn. Julius Kahn was a former Broadway actor and state legislator who was serving his first term in the United States House of Representatives. The Kahns became political partners as well as spouses. Florence became Julius' top aide while he worked his way up the congressional ladder. Julius was the chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs when he died in December 1924. He had suffered from a prolonged illness during which Florence took on most of his congressional work.
Local Republican leaders asked Kahn to run for her husband's vacant seat. Feeling both an obligation to her husband, as well as a deep confidence in her own ability to do the job, Kahn ran and won.
In her election, Kahn became the sixth woman sworn into Congress. (She was sworn in the same day as Rep. Mary Norton (D-NJ).) Kahn also became the first Jewish woman in Congress. (Bella Abzug, elected five decades later, is often inaccurately cited as the first Jewish woman in Congress. Kahn was an observant Reform Jew and an active member of a still-thriving Reform synagogue in California.)
With 25 years under her belt as a political staffer, Kahn made smart maneuvers as a freshman. She publicly demanded a committee reassignment when she was appointed to the Indian Affairs Committee, noting that her district had a limited indigenous population. Party leaders relented.
In 1929, she became the first woman on the Military Affairs Committee and in 1933 she became the first woman to serve on Appropriations Committee.
Kahn built a reputation as a defense hawk. She was enthusiastic in her support for the FBI (so much so that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, a personal friend, called her the "Mother of the FBI"). She was a Republican Party loyalist and usually voted with her party leadership, so much so that more independent Republicans, such as Fiorella La Guardia, publicly rebuked her. Though she believed in women's increased participation in politics, she eschewed feminism.
Kahn's staunch Republicanism was eventually her undoing. She ran with only token opposition in her first four elections. Her fifth, in 1934, produced an unexpectedly fierce competition from a Democratic contender, though Kahn did win. In 1936, with Franklin D. Roosevelt sweeping the presidential election, Kahn was voted out of office. She had served six terms and twelve years.
Kahn returned to San Francisco after leaving Congress, where she remained active in San Francisco society. She died at age 82 in 1948.
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Florence Prag was born in Utah in 1866, the daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants. The family moved to San Francisco when Prag was young. In San Francisco, Prag's mother Mary became a local political operative, serving on the San Francisco Board of Education. Prag attended UC Berkeley, graduating with a degree in 1887. She became a teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco.
In 1899, Prag married Julius Kahn. Julius Kahn was a former Broadway actor and state legislator who was serving his first term in the United States House of Representatives. The Kahns became political partners as well as spouses. Florence became Julius' top aide while he worked his way up the congressional ladder. Julius was the chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs when he died in December 1924. He had suffered from a prolonged illness during which Florence took on most of his congressional work.
Local Republican leaders asked Kahn to run for her husband's vacant seat. Feeling both an obligation to her husband, as well as a deep confidence in her own ability to do the job, Kahn ran and won.
In her election, Kahn became the sixth woman sworn into Congress. (She was sworn in the same day as Rep. Mary Norton (D-NJ).) Kahn also became the first Jewish woman in Congress. (Bella Abzug, elected five decades later, is often inaccurately cited as the first Jewish woman in Congress. Kahn was an observant Reform Jew and an active member of a still-thriving Reform synagogue in California.)
With 25 years under her belt as a political staffer, Kahn made smart maneuvers as a freshman. She publicly demanded a committee reassignment when she was appointed to the Indian Affairs Committee, noting that her district had a limited indigenous population. Party leaders relented.
In 1929, she became the first woman on the Military Affairs Committee and in 1933 she became the first woman to serve on Appropriations Committee.
Kahn built a reputation as a defense hawk. She was enthusiastic in her support for the FBI (so much so that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, a personal friend, called her the "Mother of the FBI"). She was a Republican Party loyalist and usually voted with her party leadership, so much so that more independent Republicans, such as Fiorella La Guardia, publicly rebuked her. Though she believed in women's increased participation in politics, she eschewed feminism.
Kahn's staunch Republicanism was eventually her undoing. She ran with only token opposition in her first four elections. Her fifth, in 1934, produced an unexpectedly fierce competition from a Democratic contender, though Kahn did win. In 1936, with Franklin D. Roosevelt sweeping the presidential election, Kahn was voted out of office. She had served six terms and twelve years.
Kahn returned to San Francisco after leaving Congress, where she remained active in San Francisco society. She died at age 82 in 1948.
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Florence Ellinwood Allen was one of the first female jurists in the United States. As a 2019 Cleveland.com article declared, “Long before there was the Notorious RBG, there was the Unstoppable FEA, a woman who never met a glass ceiling she wouldn’t fling a rock through.”
Born in Utah in 1884, Allen moved with her family to Cleveland, Ohio when her father was hired as a professor by Western Reserve University, a precursor to the current Case Western Reserve University. She attended the Western Reserve, initially training to be a concert pianist. An injury ended that career ambition early. She became a music critic for Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper.
She also turned to another passion, pursuing a masters degree in political science from Western Reserve. She became interested in constitutional law, but the school’s law school didn’t admit women, so she turned elsewhere. Columbia University also refused to accept her on the basis of her sex. Allen eventually attended New York University’s law school. She earned her degree in 1913, graduating second in her class.
After earning her law degree, Allen returned to the Cleveland area. No law firm would hire her. Instead, she worked with the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and got involved with women’s suffrage activism. She argued a case before the Ohio Supreme Court that led to the right for women in East Cleveland to vote in municipal elections. She also taught Greek and American history at the Laurel School (a still-thriving private girls school on the east side of Cleveland).
In 1919, Allen was appointed as Assistant Prosecutor for Cuyahoga County (which encompasses much of the Cleveland metropolitan area), becoming the first woman to hold such a post in the United States. The role became the first in a series of historic firsts for women in law.
In 1920, as soon as the 19th amendment was ratified, Allen ran for Common Pleas Court Judge in Cuyahoga County and became the first woman elected to a judgeship in the United States Her most high-profile case on the Court of Commons pleas involved a gangster named Frank Motto. Facing scrutiny as a judicial oddity and fighting the perception that women were too emotional for such roles, she sentenced Motto to the electric chair. She became the first woman to order and oversee a death sentence, earning both death threats and rapturous praise from Clevelanders.
In 1922, she was elected to the Ohio Supreme Court. She was the first woman elected to a state supreme court. Political observers gave Allen high marks for her on the court, and she won an additional term on the court in 1928. At the time of her election, the judiciary in Ohio was almost exclusively Republican. Allen was not only unique as a woman, but as a Democrat.
In 1930, the Christian Science Monitor wrote a fawning profile of Allen, arguing she deserved a spot on the United States Supreme Court. She would receive regular Supreme Court endorsements from newspapers and legal professionals for the rest of her career. In 1939, Allen was shortlisted for the Supreme Court when Louis Brandeis retired, but was passed. Eleanor Roosevelt, a friend and supporter, was reportedly very pissed off her husband did not appoint Allen. A decade later, during the presidency of Harry Truman, she was reportedly shortlisted again, but sitting male justices made it clear to Truman they had no interest in serving alongside a woman.
In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Allen to sit on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Upon her confirmation, she became the second woman to serve as a federal judge. (Genevieve R. Cline, a judge on the Customs Court appointed in 1928, was the first.) Allen would serve on the Court for the rest of her career. She ascended to the role of Chief Judge on the court in 1958, becoming the first woman to serve as a Chief Judge in the United States. In 1959, she would take senior status, serving in a reduced capacity for the rest of her career.
Besides her career in law, Allen became a forceful voice for peace. She became involved with pacifism after two of her brothers were killed during World War I. She wrote and spoke regularly about the need for peace. Though supportive of the formation of the United States, she voiced skepticism that the UN alone would be able to halt future world wars. In 1946, she declared, “There cannot be justice unless there is a rebirth of moral principle among the nations. There cannot be a rebirth of moral principle unless the conscience of the peoples becomes articulate.”
Allen died at age 82 in 1966.
Fifteen years after Allen died, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court. O’Connor had just a fraction of Allen’s experience upon her ascension to the Court.
Allen was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2005.
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Born in Utah in 1884, Allen moved with her family to Cleveland, Ohio when her father was hired as a professor by Western Reserve University, a precursor to the current Case Western Reserve University. She attended the Western Reserve, initially training to be a concert pianist. An injury ended that career ambition early. She became a music critic for Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper.
She also turned to another passion, pursuing a masters degree in political science from Western Reserve. She became interested in constitutional law, but the school’s law school didn’t admit women, so she turned elsewhere. Columbia University also refused to accept her on the basis of her sex. Allen eventually attended New York University’s law school. She earned her degree in 1913, graduating second in her class.
After earning her law degree, Allen returned to the Cleveland area. No law firm would hire her. Instead, she worked with the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and got involved with women’s suffrage activism. She argued a case before the Ohio Supreme Court that led to the right for women in East Cleveland to vote in municipal elections. She also taught Greek and American history at the Laurel School (a still-thriving private girls school on the east side of Cleveland).
In 1919, Allen was appointed as Assistant Prosecutor for Cuyahoga County (which encompasses much of the Cleveland metropolitan area), becoming the first woman to hold such a post in the United States. The role became the first in a series of historic firsts for women in law.
In 1920, as soon as the 19th amendment was ratified, Allen ran for Common Pleas Court Judge in Cuyahoga County and became the first woman elected to a judgeship in the United States Her most high-profile case on the Court of Commons pleas involved a gangster named Frank Motto. Facing scrutiny as a judicial oddity and fighting the perception that women were too emotional for such roles, she sentenced Motto to the electric chair. She became the first woman to order and oversee a death sentence, earning both death threats and rapturous praise from Clevelanders.
In 1922, she was elected to the Ohio Supreme Court. She was the first woman elected to a state supreme court. Political observers gave Allen high marks for her on the court, and she won an additional term on the court in 1928. At the time of her election, the judiciary in Ohio was almost exclusively Republican. Allen was not only unique as a woman, but as a Democrat.
In 1930, the Christian Science Monitor wrote a fawning profile of Allen, arguing she deserved a spot on the United States Supreme Court. She would receive regular Supreme Court endorsements from newspapers and legal professionals for the rest of her career. In 1939, Allen was shortlisted for the Supreme Court when Louis Brandeis retired, but was passed. Eleanor Roosevelt, a friend and supporter, was reportedly very pissed off her husband did not appoint Allen. A decade later, during the presidency of Harry Truman, she was reportedly shortlisted again, but sitting male justices made it clear to Truman they had no interest in serving alongside a woman.
In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Allen to sit on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Upon her confirmation, she became the second woman to serve as a federal judge. (Genevieve R. Cline, a judge on the Customs Court appointed in 1928, was the first.) Allen would serve on the Court for the rest of her career. She ascended to the role of Chief Judge on the court in 1958, becoming the first woman to serve as a Chief Judge in the United States. In 1959, she would take senior status, serving in a reduced capacity for the rest of her career.
Besides her career in law, Allen became a forceful voice for peace. She became involved with pacifism after two of her brothers were killed during World War I. She wrote and spoke regularly about the need for peace. Though supportive of the formation of the United States, she voiced skepticism that the UN alone would be able to halt future world wars. In 1946, she declared, “There cannot be justice unless there is a rebirth of moral principle among the nations. There cannot be a rebirth of moral principle unless the conscience of the peoples becomes articulate.”
Allen died at age 82 in 1966.
Fifteen years after Allen died, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court. O’Connor had just a fraction of Allen’s experience upon her ascension to the Court.
Allen was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2005.
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Florence Sich (called Barbara Folky in the Japanese translation) is a minor character in the mobile game (and recent online manga adaptation of) Layton Brothers: Mystery Room. She is a forensics analyst at Scotland Yard, and is also one of the few disabled characters in the Layton series (albeit, the disability/disabilities remain unspecified as of posting this).
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Florence Pugh (b. 1996), English actress known for her leading roles in Fighting With My Family (2019) and Midsommar (2019).
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Florence Blain Mbaye, sometimes credited as Florence Blain, is a Canadian actress. She is best known to film audiences for her role in the 2013 film Another House, for which she garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.
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The late Florence Griffith-Joyner (Flo-Jo) Fastest woman of all time. 1988 Olympic gold medalist and world record holder of both the 100 and 200 meters. Both of these records still remain unbeaten after nearly 30 years.
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Also Florence, Italy! Very beautiful name. Florence Nightingale. And Florence Henderson. Don't hear the name very much now, but very popular around 1910 and after.
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Florence is a coastal town in Oregon!
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A famous bearer of this lovely name would be silent film actress Florence Lawrence.
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Florence Vassy - CHESS on broadway
Florence Vassy - Chess in Concert.
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Florence Vassy - Chess in Concert.
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Florence was also the name of the mother of Saint Tanguy de Locmazhé and Aude de Trémazan, two famous saints from Brittany. Little is known about her apart from the fact that she died around 520. Her husband, Golon, then married a cruel woman who took great pleasure in bullying Tanguy and Aude. After 8 years of suffering Tanguy left Brittany to become a knight leaving Aude alone with her evil step-mother. When he eventually came back the evil step mother had him believe that Aude (who was a very pious young woman) was dishonoring the family. He killed his sister out of rage and legend has it that Aude came back in the family castle carrying her head between her hands while claiming her innocence. When Tanguy learnt the truth he was so horrified that he decided to become a monk for repentence and created several abbeys. (For those who wonder the evil step mother was struck by lightning when Aude came back to the castle and put her head back on her neck to claim her innocence, ask for the last rites and confront her step mother about her evil actions.)
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Sir Florence (male) was a knight in Arthurian liturature.
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Also the name of Florence Welch, lead singer of the British alternative pop band Florence and the Machine.
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Florence was the first name of the late early American actress Evelyn Nesbit. She was born Florence Evelyn Nesbit on 25 December 1884.
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Florence Mabel Harding was the wife of the 29th president of the United States of America, Warren G. Harding.
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Florence Chadwick was the first woman to swim across the English Channel in both directions.
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The late Florence Ballard, who was a member of the '60s Motown girl group The Supremes or Diana Ross and The Supremes, was a famous bearer.
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A male bearer is Florence (Yami Bakura) from Yugioh the Abridged Series. He's British.
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Florence Leontine Mary Welch, British singer of Florence & the Machine (winner of the 2010 British Album Award for her album "Lungs") bears this name.
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Hungarian born Florence Vassy is the main character in Benny Anderson, Tim Rice, and Bjorn Uvaelus's rock musical Chess.
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A famous bearer of this name is British singer Florence Welch, lead singer of the indie pop band Florence & The Machine.
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Florence Owens Thompson (September 1, 1903 - September 16, 1983) was the subject of six Great Depression-era photographs by renowned photographer Dorothea Lange. Of the six photographs, all taken the same day in 1936, the most famous was entitled 'Migrant Mother'.
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Florence Nightingale (female) was a nurse during a battle.
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Florence Dombey is a character in Charles Dickens' novel "Dombey and Son."
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Florence Lawrence (1886-1938), "The First Movie Star".
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Florence Henderson played Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch.
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A famous bearer is first lady Florence Harding.
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Florence Johnston was the name of George and Louise Jefferson's maid on the T.V. show "The Jeffersons." She was played by Marla Gibbs.
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