Ernesta Drinker Ballard
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1920 – 2005
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Who was Ernesta Drinker Ballard?
Ernesta Drinker Ballard was an American horticulturalist and feminist. Among the founders of the National Organization for Women, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, and Women's Way, Ballard was the executive director of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society from 1963 to 1981, credited by The New York Times with bringing its annual Philadelphia Flower Show to "international prominence."
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- Born
- May 13, 1920
- Also known as
- Ernesta Ballard
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Employment
- Senior Vice President, Columbia and Cowlitz Railway
- Died
- Aug 11, 2005
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on July 23, 2013
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