Florence Collins Porter (August 14, 1853 – December 31, 1930) was an American newspaper editor, clubwoman, political campaigner, and activist for temperance and women's suffrage.

[4][5] Porter was the first woman to serve on a Board of Education in Maine, and was superintendent of schools in Caribou for four years.

[2] In 1900, she was owner and publisher of the Aroostook Register, and president of the Maine Federation of Women's Clubs; that year, her uncle, oilman Wallace Hardison, invited her to California to join the editorial staff the Los Angeles Herald, which he owned.

[6][7] She was a popular guest speaker, invited to speak on a range of topics, including "Myths and Legends of Maine" for the Pine Tree State Association of Los Angeles, in 1916.

[2] Porter attended the World Congress of Representative Women in 1893, where she gave a paper titled "The Power of Womanliness in Dealing with Stern Problems.

She was one of two women to serve as California delegates to the 1912 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

Charles William Porter, a Congregational minister who also served in the Maine state legislature.