Susan Farmer

Susan L. (née Lawson) Farmer (May 29, 1942 – September 16, 2013) was an American politician, media executive and television personality.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she went to Garland Junior College and Brown University Extension Division. Farmer was elected to Secretary of State of Rhode Island in two terms, from 1982 through 1986 as a Republican, and was the first woman in Rhode Island history to serve in statewide constitutional office. Farmer then served as President of Rhode Island PBS until her retirement in 2004, and the Rhode Island Board of Elections. She died in 2013, in Providence, Rhode Island, at the age of 71 of cancer.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Farmer was a 2013 recipient of the Isabelle Ahearn O'Neill Award.^[4]

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Political offices
Preceded by Robert F. Burns	Secretary of State of Rhode Island 1983–1987	Succeeded by Kathleen S. Connell

1966–1969

Glenna Collett Vare Eileen Farrell Ruth Hussey E. Doris Brennan Paula Deubel Carole Garnett-Wheeler Clara LaMore Janet Moreau Albina Osipowich Lois Ann Testa JoAnne Carner June Rockwell Levy Mary Tucker Thorp

1970–1979

Jean Madeira Ruth Buzzi Ida Silverman Margaret F. Ackroyd Catherine S. Robinson Gertrude Meth Hochberg Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones Antoinette Downing Frances G. Knight Princess Red Wing

1980–1989

Diane L. Coutu Florence K. Murray Anna Tucker Katherine Urquhart Warren Eleanor Slater Katharine Gibbs Olive F. Wiley Eleanor M. McMahon Sister Mary Bernard Sister Eileen Murphy Marion F. Avarista

1990–1999

Ade Bethune Gladys Williams Brayton Mary P. Brennan Nancy A. J. Potter Mary Crowley Mulvey Lizzie Murphy Barbara-Jeanne Seabury Helen A. Bert Catherine Tilley Hammett Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf Arlene Violet Mary Dyer Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Anne Hutchinson Margaret Langdon-Kelly Maria Spacagna Helen Metcalf Danforth Ann Smith Franklin Sarah Updike Goddard Beatrice Oenslager Chace

2000–2009

2010–2019

Kathleen S. Connell Susan Farmer Caroline Hazard Jane Stuart Karen Adams Eileen Slocum Mary C. Wheeler Wilma Briggs Billie Ann Burrill Martha McSally Lucy Rawlings Tootell Catherine O'Reilly Collette Isabelle Ahearn O'Neill Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Margaret A. McKenna Noreen Stonor Drexel

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