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Doris “Granny D” Haddock
Doris "Granny D" Haddock (born Ethel Doris Rollins; January 24, 1910 – March 9, 2010) 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.
Haddock's walk across the country followed a southern route and took more than a year to complete, starting on January 1, 1999, in southern California and ending in Washington, D.C., on February 29, 2000.
Just over a month after her cross-country brought her back home, the Laconia native left the Granite State again to head back to the Washington D.C. There, she was arrested for illegally demonstrating inside the Capitol Rotunda. Twenty-nine other protesters were arrested with her.
Pleading guilty, she told the judge, “In my 90 years, this is the first time I have been arrested. I risk my good name – for I do indeed care what my neighbors think about me. But, Your Honor, some of us do not have much power, except to put our bodies in the way of an injustice – to picket, to walk, or to just stand in the way. It will not change the world overnight, but it is all we can do.”
Haddock requested a name change of her middle name to "Granny D", the name by which she had long been known. On August 19, 2004, Haddock's request was officially granted by Judge John Maher during a hearing at the Cheshire County probate court.
In 2004, she ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Judd Gregg for the U.S. Senate. Without accepting private campaign contributions and running as a Democrat, Haddock garnered 34 percent of the vote against the long-term popular senator.
Even in college, Haddock had been a bit of a rebel. While studying acting at Emerson College in the 1920s, she secretly married James Haddock, who was studying at Amherst College. Secrets are hard to keep though, and when Emerson College learned about her wedding, she was expelled.
While she didn’t start advocating for campaign finance reform until she was 88, she kept pushing for it until she was 100 years old. A celebration of the centenarian's birthday was held at the New Hampshire House three days after the United State Supreme Court made the Citizens United decision, upholding political spending by corporations.
“The Supreme Court now opens the floodgates to usher in a new tsunami of corporate money into politics,” an angry Haddock said in a statement.
After marrying, she started a family; she had a daughter, Betty and a son, James Jr.. She worked during the Great Depression and was employed for twenty years as an executive secretary in the offices of the BeeBee Shoe factory in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Haddock and her husband retired to Dublin, New Hampshire, in 1972. Her husband later developed Alzheimer's disease, dying after a ten-year struggle with the illness. At about the same time, Haddock's best friend died. During her 1999 walk across the nation, the hat that Haddock was seen in was one that belonged originally to her best friend.
Haddock had eight grandchildren: Heidi, Gillian, David Bradley, William, Alice, Joseph, Lawrence, and Raphael. She also had 16 great-grandchildren: Kyle, David, Jennie, Kendall, Peyton, Matthew, Richard, Grace, Justin, William, James, Beatrix, Tucker, Mathilda, Parker, and Clay.
Haddock celebrated her 100th birthday on January 24, 2010,[3] and died six weeks later on March 9, 2010, at her son's home in Dublin, New Hampshire, following a bout with respiratory illness.[2]
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