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Dorothy Frooks was born on February 12, 1896 in Saugerties, New York, United States. The daughter of a well-to-do East Coast businessman, Frooks was recruited by one of her mother’s friends to make speeches for the suffragist movement.
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Dorothy Frooks was born on February 12, 1896 in Saugerties, New York, United States. The daughter of a well-to-do East Coast businessman, Frooks was recruited by one of her mother’s friends to make speeches for the suffragist movement.
As a teenager, Frooks also recruited men for the service in World War I and was invited by President Woodrow Wilson to serve in the U.S. Navy. She then earned her law degree from Hamilton Law School in Chicago and a master’s degree from New York University.
Frook's first book, The American Heart, was published in 1919. While in New York, she set up free legal aid clinics and was the Salvation Army’s first full-time attorney. In 1920, Frooks began writing a column titled “My Day” for the New York World, which lasted until 1932.
Frooks also wrote Love’s Law (1928), All in Love (1932), and Lady Lawyer (with Cay Dorney in 1974) and other books. She also pushed for legislation for aid to dependent children. During World War II, Frooks served in the Judge Advocate office in the U.S. Army. Despite her devotion to women’s causes, she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.
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. 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.
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.
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In 1986, Dorothy married Jay Philippe Vanderbilt.
