Cornelia Bryce Pinchot
Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce Pinchot (August 20, 1881 – September 9, 1960), also known as “Leila Pinchot,” was a 20th-century American conservationist,
Progressive politician, and
women’s rights activist. She was the wife of
Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), the renowned conservationist and two-time
Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and was also a close friend of U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt. She was the maternal great-granddaughter of
Peter Cooper, founder of
Cooper Union, and daughter of U.S. Congressman and Envoy
Lloyd Stephens Bryce (1851–1917). She played a key role in the improvement of
Grey Towers, the Pinchot family estate in
Milford, Pennsylvania, which was donated to the
U.S. Forest Service in 1963 and then designated as a
National Historic Landmark in 1966
A founding member of the Committee of 100 and major donor to the education and legal defense funds of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) during the organization's first years of operation, she has been described by historians at the
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission as “one of the most politically active first ladies in the history of Pennsylvania.”
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