Frances Boardman Squire Potter

Frances Boardman Squire Potter (November 12, 1867 – March 25, 1914) was an American academic and activist.

Frances Boardman Squire was born on November 12, 1867, in Elmira, New York, to Grace (Smith) and Truman H. Squire. She married Winfield S. Potter in 1891.

Potter attended Elmira College as an undergraduate from 1883 to 1887, graduating with an AB, and received a master's degree in 1889. She moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, shortly after graduating. Initially she taught high school and then became a professor of English at the University of Minnesota, where she was a full professor from 1907 to 1909.

Potter left her professorship to become the corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), after being elected at NAWSA's national convention in 1909.

Publications Germelshausen (play, 1904, with Mary Gray Peck and Carl Schlenker) The Ballingtons (novel; Little, Brown and Company, 1905) The Common School Spelling Book