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Florence M. Stote was acting County Superintendent of Schools in El Paso, Colorado in 1907-1908. In 1918, Stote campaigned on the Republican ticket for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. She was defeated by the Democratic incumbent, Mary C. C. Bradford, by nearly 13,000 votes. Florence M. Stote was born in Kansas in 1870. In 1896, she married William H. R. Stote, with whom she had one daughter, Helen M.
