Frances Boardman Squire Potter (November 12, 1867 – March 25, 1914) was an American academic and activist. Frances Boardman Squire was born on November 12, 1867, in Elmira, New York, to Grace (Smith) and Truman H. Squire. She married Winfield S. Potter in 1891. Potter left her professorship to become the corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), after being elected at NAWSA's national convention in 1909. Around that time, she also chaired the literary committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and edited Life and Labor, its magazine.