Cora Frances Stoddard (September 17, 1872May 13, 1936) was an American

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activist. Stoddard was born on September 17, 1872, in

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, to Julia F. (Miller) and Emerson H. Stoddard. She received an AB from

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in 1896. After graduating, she worked as a teacher in

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. Stoddard represented the United States at the 12th International Conference on Alcoholism in London. As of 1914, she was the secretary of the Scientific Temperance Foundation, a successor organization to the Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the

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. Stoddard had worked as a secretary to

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when she headed the department. She died on May 13, 1936, in

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