Sinclair, Mary P.

Mary P. Sinclair was born September 23, 1918, in Chisholm, Minnesota. In 1940, she graduated from the College of St. Catherine (St. Paul, MN), majoring in chemistry and English. During the 1950s, she worked at the Library of Congress. There she first became interested in the problems of nuclear energy as a result of her work with classified material from the Atomic Energy Commission.

After moving to her husband's hometown of Midland, Michigan, Sinclair worked as a librarian and technical writer for the Dow Chemical Corporation until retiring to devote her time to raising her children. Her concern about nuclear energy continued, however, and in 1967, when Consumers Power announced plans to construct a nuclear plant in Midland, Sinclair began publicly questioning the move and writing critical letters to the Midland Daily News .

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