Dorothy Frooks

Dorothy Frooks
Robert M. McBride and Dorothy Frooks, Stork Club, 1952
Born (1896-02-12)February 12, 1896
Saugerties, New York, U.S.
Died April 13, 1997(1997-04-13) (aged 101)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation Author, publisher, lawyer
Known for Political and social activism
Spouse(s) Jay P. Vanderbilt (1986-97; her death)

Dorothy Frooks (February 12, 1896 – April 13, 1997) was an American author, publisher, military officer, and lawyer. In 1934, she ran on the Law Preservation ticket for U.S. Representative-at-large.

She worked as a writer for the New York Evening World and published the Murray Hill News in 1952. She also wrote Labor Courts Outlaw Strikes, a pamphlet calling for the establishment of a labor court.[1]

A lawyer in Peekskill, New York, she wrote numerous fiction and nonfiction books, including The Olympic Torch, The American Heart, and an autobiography, Lady Lawyer.[1]

Military career

Frooks served as chief yeoman in the United States Navy during World War I and as a judge advocate in the United States Army during World War II.[2]

She served as the National Commander of the Women World War Veterans and worked with the Veterans of World War I and the Retreads, an organization for veterans who served in both world wars.[1]

Reds

Frooks appeared as one of the "Witnesses" in Warren Beatty's 1981 film Reds, along with fellow centenarian radicals Scott Nearing and George Seldes. Frooks, Nearing and Seldes were all firsthand witnesses of the red-baiting, McCarthyism, and Cold War hysteria of the 1950s.

Death

Frooks died in 1997, at the age of 101, and was interred in Calverton National Cemetery.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dorothy Frooks papers, 1913-1990". Archives and Manuscripts. New York Public Library. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  2. ↑ Thomas, Jr., Robert McG. (April 19, 1997). "Dorothy Frooks, Lawyer and Suffragist, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Dorothy Frooks". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
  • Frooks, Dorothy (1919). The American Heart. Burton Publishing Company.
  • Frooks, Dorothy. Lady Lawyer.
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