Dorothy Elizabeth Smith Gruening graduated from Vassar College (1909), studied at Simmons College and Boston University, and worked as the general secretary of the Salem (Mass.) Young Women's Association. In 1915, she married writer and newspaperman Ernest H. Gruening. They lived in Maine, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and abroad, until 1939, when President Roosevelt appointed Ernest Gruening governor of Alaska. In the 1950s he served as senator from Alaska.
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