List of Daughters of the American Revolution members

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a patriot of the American Revolutionary War. Notable members and former members includes the following list.

Living members

Martha Barnhart, civic leader, former NSDAR treasurer general and former Indiana State Regent NSDAR Karen Batchelor, American lawyer and genealogist and the first-reported African American member of the DAR Betsy Boze, American academic, chief executive officer and dean, Kent State University Stark Ada E. Brown (born 1974), first African American woman federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate, first African American woman on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and second Native American woman to become a federal judge Patricia M. Bryson, president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy A'Lelia Bundles (born 1952), journalist, news producer, author, and great-great-granddaughter of Madam C. J. Walker Carol Burnett (born 1933), actress, singer, and comedian Dymond Bush, Miss Black Rhode Island USA 2016 Laura Bush (born 1946), former first lady of the United States Linda Gist Calvin, businesswoman and 41st NSDAR President General Dianne Cannestra, quilter and President National of the United States Daughters of 1812 Rosanne Cash (born 1955), singer-songwriter Kristin Cooper (born 1956), First Lady of North Carolina Donna L. Crisp (born 1949), Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy Bo Derek (born 1956), actress, former model, and veterans advocate Amy Dickinson (born 1959), journalist Ann Turner Dillon, 44th NSDAR President General Elizabeth Dole (born 1936), former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, former transportation secretary, labor secretary, American Red Cross president, Federal Trade Commissioner, presidential candidate, and presidential advisor Tammy Duckworth (born 1968), American Army veteran, former U.S. representative, and from 2017, U.S. senator from Illinois. Duckworth is depicted along with Molly Pitcher in a statue sponsored by the DAR Illinois chapter and dedicated to women veterans on the grounds of the Brehm Memorial Library in Mt. Vernon, Illinois Jane Grier Durden, president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Sharon Fort, substance abuse counselor and first African-American member of the Arkansas DAR Laura Jane Fraser, author and journalist Johnette Gordon-Weaver, historian, civil rights activist, and first African-American member of the Williamsburg Chapter of DAR Julie Noegel Hardaway, president-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Heather French Henry (born 1974), Miss America 2000, former Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs, and former Second Lady of Kentucky Corinne Hoch, vice president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Kay Ivey (born 1944), Governor of Alabama Candace Whittemore Lovely (born 1953), painter Regina Lynch-Hudson, publicist, historian and first African-American member of the Greenlee Chapter of DAR Laura W. Murphy (born 1955), lobbyist, civil rights activist, and former director of the Washington Legislative Office for the American Civil Liberties Union Donna Nelson (born 1954), chemistry professor Kristi Noem (born 1971), American politician, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security, former governor of South Dakota, former U.S. congresswoman Katie Pavlich (born 1988), conservative commentator, author, blogger, and podcaster Katie Ann Powell, 2024 Miss District of Columbia Mary Kathryn Muenster Pritzker (born 1967), First Lady of Illinois Virginie de Pusy Lafayette (born 1970), French aristocrat Reisha Raney, business executive, engineer, podcaster, and first African-American state officer of the Maryland DAR Marie Laurence de Rochefort, French aristocrat, socialite, television personality, and writer Abigail Salisbury, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Sarah Huckabee Sanders (born 1982), Governor of Arkansas Margaret Rhea Seddon (born 1947), NASA astronaut Alice Schroeder (born 1956), financial journalist, executive, and author Sheryl Sims, American quilter and first African-American member of the Nelly Custis Chapter of DAR Marjorie McKenney Stone (born 1923), military veteran of World War II Ginnie Sebastian Storage, 47th DAR President General Roberta Tidmore (born 1922), military veteran of World War II Denise Doring VanBuren, 45th NSDAR President General and Miss Teen New York 1979 Wilma Vaught (born 1930), American military officer and first woman to reach the rank of brigadier general from the comptroller field Presley Merritt Wagoner, 40th NSDAR President General Kara Westercamp, Associate White House Counsel and judge on the United States Court of International Trade Maria Williams-Cole, first African-American member of the DAR in Prince George's County, Maryland Phyllis J. Wilson, 5th Command Chief Warrant Officer of the US Army Reserve and President of the Military Women's Memorial Pamela Rouse Wright, 46th NSDAR President General Lynn Forney Young, 43rd NSDAR President General and commissioner for the United States Semiquincentennial

Deceased members

Jane Addams (1860–1935), activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Alice Baltzelle Addenbrooke (1881–1972), historian and clubwoman Mary Jane Aldrich (1833–1909), temperance reformer and lecturer Annie Lowrie Alexander (1864–1929), physician Julia McGehee Alexander (1876–1957), politician and lawyer Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), suffragist Elizabeth Cody Bachman (1898–1985), President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Helen Tufts Bailie (1874–1962), social reformer and activist Lillie Stella Acer Ballagh (1857–1938), national chairman of Colonial Relics Betty Ballinger (1854–1936), co-founder of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Mary Ross Banks (1846–1910), litterateur and author Sarah Gertrude Banks (1839–1926), physician and suffragist Clara Barton (1821–1912), American Red Cross founder Octavia Williams Bates (1846–1911), suffragist, clubwoman, author Mary Temple Bayard (1853–1916), American writer, journalist Jeannette Osborn Baylies (1912–1984), 31st DAR President General Cora M. Beach (1878–1968), State Chairman and member of National Committee for Genealogical and Historical Research Clara Bancroft Beatley (1858–1923), educator, lecturer, author Florence Hague Becker (1886–1971), philanthropist, anti-communist, and 16th NSDAR President General' Jessie Van Zile Belden (1857–1910), novelist and former State Regent of New York Claudia Belk (1937–2017), judge and First Lady of Charlotte, North Carolina Jennie Iowa Berry (1866–1951), National President, Woman's Relief Corps Martha Berry (1865–1942), educator and founder of Berry College Fanny Yarborough Bickett (1870–1941), First Lady of North Carolina and first female president of the North Carolina Railroad Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), author and clubwoman Wayne Garrison Blair (1930–2000), 36th DAR President General Leah Belle Kepner Boyce (1881–1960), State Recording and secretary of the California Daughters of the American Revolution Mary Eleanor Brackenridge (1837–1924), suffragist, clubwoman, and academic administrator Gene Bradford (1909–1937), member of the Washington State House of Representatives Emily Gibson Braerton (1884–1966), activist and NSDAR Vice President General Grace Lincoln Hall Brosseau (1872–1959), writer, socialite, and 13th NSDAR President General Alice Willson Broughton (1889–1980), First Lady of North Carolina Elizabeth Childress Brown (1842–1919), First Lady of Tennessee and President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Olivia Dudley Bucknam (1874–1966), clubwoman Febb Burn (1873–1945), schoolteacher and suffragist Frances E. Burns (1866–1937), social leader, business executive Barbara Bush (1925–2018), former first lady of the United Stateshttps://blog.dar.org/canceled-dar-christmas-open-house Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell (1839–1930), DAR Vice President-Presiding Helen Calkins (1893–1970), American mathematician Ruth Coltrane Cannon (1891–1965), preservationist, historian, and philanthropist Princess Julia Cantacuzène, Countess Speransky (1876–1975), American-Russian aristocrat and author, granddaughter of President Ulysses S. Grant Eleanor Kearny Carr (1840–1912), First Lady of North Carolina Gertrude Sprague Carraway (1896–1993), journalist, educator, and 22nd NSDAR President General Margaret Ann Scruggs Carruth (1892–1988), etcher, printmaker, illustrator and educator Rosalynn Carter (1927–2023), former first lady of the United States, politician, political and social activist Luella J. B. Case (1807–1857), author Marietta Stanley Case (1845–1900), poet and temperance advocate Mary C. Martin Casey (died 1920), socialite Mildred Stafford Cherry (1894–1971), First Lady of North Carolina Annetta R. Chipp (1866–1961), temperance leader and prison evangelist Florence Anderson Clark (1835–1918), author, newspaper editor, librarian, university dean Vinnie B. Clark (1878–1971), established and developed the Geography Department at the San Diego State Teachers College Alice Culler Cobb (1843-1918), educator, missionary Clara Rankin Coblentz (1863–1933), social reformer Sarah Johnson Cocke (1865–1944), writer and civic leader Margaret Wootten Collier (1869–1947), author Martha Layne Collins (1936–2025), Governor of Kentucky Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – suffragist, activist, writer Lora Haines Cook (1866–1946), 12th NSDAR President General Betty Cordon (1923–2012) – socialite, dubbed "New York's Glamour Girl" in 1941 and "America's No.1 Debutante" in 1942 Elizabeth Brownrigg Henderson Cotten (1875–1975), socialite, suffragist, and librarian Charity Rusk Craig (1849–1913) – sixth national president of the Woman's Relief Corps Lura Harris Craighead (1858–1926) – author, parliamentarian, clubwoman Harriet L. Cramer (1847–1922) – newspaper publisher Mary Rankin Cranston (1873-1931) – librarian, non-fiction writer, social researcher, and farmer Inez Mabel Crawford (1869–1938), first registrar of the General Edward Hand Chapter Alice Creelman (1858–1952), artist and art dealer Mary Mayo Crenshaw (1875–1951), author and civil servant Pauline Smith Crenshaw (1878–1956), historian, co-founder and president of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Regent of the Frances Marion Chapter, NSDAR Ethel Sperry Crocker (1861–1934), philanthropist and art patron Emma Guy Cromwell (1865–1952), Kentucky State Treasurer and Kentucky Secretary of State Belle Caldwell Culbertson (1857–1934), author and philanthropist Susan Lawrence Dana (1862–1946), suffragist, philanthropist, heiress, and socialite Addie Worth Bagley Daniels (1869–1943), suffragist, writer, and socialite Flora Adams Darling (1840–1910), founder of the National Society of United States Daughters of 1812 Eunice Davis (1800–1901), abolitionist and founding member of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society Carrie Chase Davis (1863–1953), American physician, suffragist Kate Embry Dowdle Davis (1871–1954), President National of the U.S. Daughters of 1812 Rachel Darden Davis (1905–1979), physician and member of the North Carolina House of Representatives Susan Topliff Davis (1862–1931), American non-profit executive Marie Decca (1859–unknown), American lyric soprano operatic singer Helen Reed de Laporte (1864–1936), educator and politician, first woman to serve on a school board in Dutchess County, New York Margaret B. Denning (1856–1935), missionary and temperance worker Mary Desha (1850–1911), educator, civil servant, and co-founder of the DAR Allie Luse Dick (1859–1933), music teacher Anne Alexander Dickey (1843–1940), clubwoman and co-founder of the Daughters of Hawaii Estelle Skidmore Doremus (1830–1905), supporter of the New York Philharmonic