Dorothy Smith Gruening

{{Short description|American pacifist}}

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| name = Dorothy Smith Gruening

| image = Dorothy Smith Gruening cropped from WLPF1936.jpg

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| birth_name = Dorothy Elizabeth Smith

| birth_date = {{Birth year|1888}}

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| death_date = {{Death year and age|1979|1888}}

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| nationality = American

| alma_mater = Vassar College

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| occupation = Social Activist

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| spouse = {{marriage|Ernest Gruening|1914}}

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Dorothy Gruening née Smith (1888–1979){{cite web |title=My Day Index: Gruening, Dorothy Smith, 1888-1979 |url=https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/index/person/erp-pn-dorgru.cfm |website=The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Digital Edition |accessdate=26 April 2019}} was known for her social activism. Specifically, she was the general secretary of the Salem, Massachusetts Young Women's Association,{{cite web |title=Gruening, Dorothy Smith |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6j991wc |website=Social Networks and Archival Context |publisher=University of Virginia Library |accessdate=26 April 2019}} and was active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

File:EditedWLPF1936.jpg, recently returned from the world Peace Congress in Brussels; Mrs. Hannah Clothier Hull, President of the League; Dr. Gertrude C. Bussey, of Goucher College; Mrs. Ernest Gruening. Back row, left to right: Mrs. Frank Aydelotte, of Swarthmore, Pa., and Mrs. Mildred S. Olmstead, who just made an expensive trip through the West and Middle West speaking on the need for peace"]]

She was a graduate of Vassar College. In 1914 she married the journalist, Ernest Gruening, who became the Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969.{{cite web |last1=Richardson |first1=Kim |title=Gruening, Ernest |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gruening-ernest |website=Encyclopedia.com |accessdate=26 April 2019}}