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In 1914, Frances Kellor ran unsuccessfully on the Progressive Party ticket for delegate at large to the upcoming New York State constitutional convention. She was nominated by the Committee of the State of New York for Representation in the Constitutional Convention, which was chaired by Lillian Wald. Kellor was an expert on immigration. n his 1913 autobiography Theodore Roosevelt wrote, "I always favored woman's suffrage, but only tepidly, until my association with women like Jane Addams and France Kellor, who desired it as one means of enabling them to render better and more efficient service, changed me into a zealous instead of a lukewarm adherent of the cause."
