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Ora F. Porter
1880–1970
United States
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Ora Frances Porter (1879–1970) was an influential figure in Bowling Green's African-American community, one of the earliest registered nurses in Warren County, Kentucky, and was the first African American Butler County native to earn a college degree. She is memorialized on a Kentucky historical marker.
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