Details About Dorothy Dunbar: Ethnicity, Nationality, Net Worth



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Dorothy Dunbar was born in New York City on October 20, 1887, the daughter of William and Emma Dunbar. She was educated in the public schools of New York and Boston, and graduated from high school in 1905. She attended Radcliffe College from 1905 to 1909, and received her A.B. degree from Smith College in 1910.

Dunbar began her career as a journalist, working for the Boston Herald and the New York Times. In 1912, she became the first woman to be appointed as a foreign correspondent for the Times, stationed in Berlin. She covered the outbreak of World War I in 1914, and was the only American woman journalist to remain in Germany during the war.

In 1919, Dunbar returned to the United States, and became a publicist for the League of Women Voters. She also worked as a freelance writer, and wrote a column for the New York World-Telegram. In 1921, she married Francis B. Sayre, Jr., the son of Woodrow Wilson’s daughter Jessie Wilson Sayre. The couple had three children.

Dunbar’s husband was appointed as U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines in 1934, and she accompanied him to Manila. While in the Philippines, she wrote a column for the Manila Times, and also worked as a radio broadcaster. In 1935, she became the first woman to be appointed as a member of the Philippine Civil Service Commission.

Dunbar returned to the United States in 1936, and divorced her husband in 1937. She married Robert W. Bingham, the owner and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, in 1938. The couple had one child.

During World War II, Dunbar worked for the Office of War Information, and served as a member of the War Production Board’s Consumer Advisory Council. After the war, she returned to her career as a journalist and publicist.

Dunbar died on February 25, 1960, at her home in New York City.

Source: IMDb, Wikipedia