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![Floaten, Margaret Octavia](https://cdn1.historyit.com/iiif/2/5edfd98ccc4f69.54593064/65428dc980c977.99155819.png/full/360,/0/default.jpg?no_errors=1)
Margaret Octavia Floaten campaigned as the Socialist Party candidate for County Superintendent of Schools in Larimer County, Colorado in 1906. Two years later she was a Socialsit Party candidate for Presidential Elector. She was also a candidate for Colorado University Regent in 1912. Floten was probably the Socialist candidate in that race as well.