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Show FRANCES ELECTED FARLEY 1976 Farley was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1923 to Eva She graduated from the University Ball and Frank A. Ball. York Business and New a B.S. in from Dakota with of North M.S. in Retailing. After working two years in University with an New York City, she returned to the middle west to be married. Frances Carson Farley and Frances Yvonne Ball were married. children, Frances Elizabeth and William Kit., who is the father of their only grandchild. In Eugene W. 1946, They have two The Farleys City. Gene lived in st. Paul, Chicago, Kansas City, and Salt Lake transferred to Utah with Sperry-Univac in 1970. was use of her education in Retailing and Business before her children were born, and then again when they had reached an age where she felt she could comfortably take care of both home and work. Frances made Her professional career included: training specialist at Namm's Department Store in New York; buyer for L.S. Donaldson Co., in in for resident Allied Purchasing Corp. Minneapolis,; buyer Chicago; Merchandise Manager for L.S. Donaldson in Minneapolis; buyer for Dayton-Hudson, Minneapolis. When her husband was transferred to Salt Lake City in 1970, Frances discovered that retailing in Utah did not pay salaries she was She visited a accustomed to. professional placement agency and asked where women made higher sal aries in Utah. The answer was, "in the health care business". So she applied at L.D.S. Hospital where she worked for ten years. When she decided to run for the State Senate, a seat held by Senator Hughes Brockbank, the hospital was kind enough to give her time without pay and hold her job for her. And she won the seat. for office because she felt the Senator was his consti tuents. She had a great desire to remove the food tax from food, and strived very hard to fulfill that desire. She beat the Senator by 67 votes out of 19000 cast. She was the first woman to be elected to the Utah Senate in 20 Frances not chose to responsi ve run to years. ran for reelection in 1980 and won by a big margin. Then in she ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House seat. She garnered 46.2% of the vote. Two years later she was defeated by two-tenths of one percent. In 1986 she ran once again for the state senate and won by almost two to one. She was still the only woman in the Senate, and the only non-mormon. Frances 1982 Frances 174 decided not to run fr re-election in 1990 and encouraged |
