Dorothy Frooks
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Robert M. McBride and Dorothy Frooks, Stork Club, 1952
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| Born | February 12, 1896 Saugerties, New York |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. New York City |
| Occupation | author, publisher, lawyer |
| Known for | political and social activism |
| Spouse(s) | Jay P. Vanderbilt (1986 to 1997, her death) |
Dorothy Frooks (February 12, 1896 – April 13. 1997) was an American author, publisher, military figure, lawyer and actress. 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 a pamphlet, entitled Labor Courts Outlaw Strikes, calling for the establishment of a labor court. She was a lawyer in Peekskill, New York.[citation needed]
As an author, she wrote numerous fiction and nonfiction books, including The Olympic Torch, The American Heart and Lady Lawyer, her autobiography. A veteran of both World War I (United States Navy) and World War II (United States Army), Frooks served as the National Commander of the Women World War Veterans.[citation needed]
She 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 first-hand witnesses of the red-baiting, McCarthyism, and Cold War hysteria of the 1950s.
Frooks died in 1997 at the age of 101.
External links
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- Dorothy Frooks papers finding aid at New York Public Library
- Dorothy Frooks, Lady Lawyer
- Dorothy Frooks, Lawyer and Suffragist, Dies New York Times, April 19, 1997
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- American film actresses
- American centenarians
- American women journalists
- American pamphlet writers
- American women in World War I
- American women in World War II
- Female wartime nurses
- Women in the United States Navy
- Women in the United States Army
- 1896 births
- 1997 deaths
- Law Preservation Party politicians
- Burials at Calverton National Cemetery
- 20th-century American actresses
- People from Saugerties, New York
- Actresses from New York
- Journalists from New York
- American military personnel of World War I
- American military personnel of World War II
- American suffragists
