Vera Glaser was born in St. Louis in 1916. Glaser moved to Washington D.C. where she worked as a free lance journalist before joining the Washington Times Herald in 1944. Glaser continued to work as a Washington based reporter through the 1990s for a number of different news agencies, including the North America Newspaper Alliance, Knight-Ridder, Washingtonian Magazine, Scripts – WTOP News, and the Maturity News Service. In addition to her reporting, Glaser was active in the Republican Party during the 1950s and 1960s, including serving on the senate staffs of Sen. Charles Potter and Sen. Kenneth Keating. She also served on the President's Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities and as president of the Washington Press Club.
From the guide to the Vera Glaser papers, 1945-1995, (University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.)
