DWYER, Florence Price (1902-1976)
Republican of New Jersey 
12th congressional district
Served in House 1957-1972
Biography
A Representative from New Jersey; born Florence Louise Price, July 4, 1902, in Reading, Berks County, Pa.; attended the public schools in Reading, Pa., and Toledo, Ohio; special courses at Rutgers Law School; State legislation chairman of New Jersey Business and Professional Women; moved to Elizabeth, Union County, N.J.; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1944; member of the State house of assembly 1950-1956; United States Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1959-1973; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; retired and resided in Elizabeth, N.J., where she died February 29, 1976; interment in St. Gertrude's Cemetery, Colonia, N.J.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
