Susan Farmer

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

For the English actress, see Suzan Farmer.

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 inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2010, and was a 2013 recipient of the Isabelle Ahearn O'Neill Award.[4][5]

References
  1. Susan Farmer Former RI Secretary of States Dies Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Susan L. Farmer-obituary
  3. Susan L. Farmer-obituary-Monahan Drabble Sherman Funeral Home Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame: Susan L. Farmer, Inducted 2010". Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  5. GoLocalProv Features Team. "Women Holding Office Honorees". GoLocalProv Politics. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
Political offices
Preceded by
Robert F. Burns		 Secretary of State of Rhode Island
1983–1987		 Succeeded by
Kathleen S. Connell
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