Credit: Duke University, Special Collections Library
In 1914, Gifford Pinchot married Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce, the daughter of a wealthy a Rhode Island journalist and politician. A strong advocate of women's rights, labor, and other progressive causes, Cornelia became one of the most politically active first ladies in Pennsylvania history of Pennsylvania. Called the best political mind of any woman he had ever met by Theodore Roosevelt, she also made three unsuccessful runs for the U.S. House of Representatives.
