She was also reported by The Smith Alumnae Quarterly as being "a member of the Speakers' Bureau" that year who was "speaking widely throughout the state on Republican issues.
Per a front-page article about her in the November 3, 1926 Globe:[14] "A woman wielding the power of women and not bothering her head about the men's vote won the election to represent the 19th Worcester District in the General Court.
Mrs. Florence Seaver Slocomb, the first woman Legislator from Worcester, attributes her victory to her women supporters, efficiently organized....
At midnight the assurance came she would be Representative-elect, the award of an experience for which she forsook a lifelong anticipation of a trip to Europe.... 'I'm a born fighter,' says Mrs. Slocomb, who appears anything but belligerent.
After losing her bid for reelection, she continued to advocate for women's rights by launching petition drives and speaking publicly regarding suffrage matters.
[20] Preceded in death by her husband in 1938, Florence (Seaver) Slocomb died at the age of 88 on Friday, November 11, 1955, in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Monday, November 14, 1955, in the Lucy Stone Chapel at the Forest Hills Crematorium in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.