Doris Haddock Quotes


If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.


Citations

Haddock, Doris, and Dennis Burke. Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year. Villard Books, 2001.

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Doris Haddock
Doris Haddock
  • Born: January 24, 1910
  • Died: March 9, 2010
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Doris "Granny D" Haddock was an American political activist from New Hampshire. Haddock achieved national fame when, between the ages of 88 and 90, starting on January 1, 1999, and culminating on February 29, 2000, she walked over 3,200 miles (5,100 km) across the continental United States to advocate for campaign finance reform. In 2004, she ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Judd Gregg for the U.S. Senate.