Background
Marion Benedict was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York by her parents William Marsh Benedict (a lawyer) and Grace Dillingham Benedict (a Vassar alumna).
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Marion Cothren
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Vassar College.
Career
Marion was a 1900 graduate of Vassar College and pursued teacher training at Columbia University (Master of Arts 1901). She was admitted to the New York bar in 1909. Marion Cothren went to Europe during World War I to work with the International Red Cross at Toul, France, an experience she credited with confirming her pacifism: "When I finally left France I took with me not only the pacifist"s theoretical hatred of war, but a hatred born of an overwhelming sympathy for those who warred."
She was on the National Advisory Council of the National Woman"s Party, one of the honorary chairs of the Woman"s Peace Party when it was founded in 1915, and was one of the thirty American women to attend the International Congress of Women at the Hague that same year.
Cothren was also a vocal supporter of Margaret Sanger, and served as president of the New York Women"s Publishing Company, the publisher of Birth Control Review, from 1918 to 1923.
She also wrote The American Broadcasting Company of Voting, A Handbook of Government and Politics for the Women of New York State (1918) to instruct new female voters.
Membership
Marion B. Cothren was a member of the College Equal Suffrage League, the New York chapter of the Women"s Trade Union League, and Heterodoxy, a feminist debating club based in Greenwich Village, among other clubwork.
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Political Party
National Woman"s Party