1. Paula Laddey's mother was a lecturer, and president of the New Jersey Woman's Suffrage Association from 1908 to 1912.
13 Facts About Paula Laddey
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Paula Laddey moved to the United States with her family as a child in 1888.
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Paula Laddey graduated from New York University in 1906, and earned a law degree from Newark Law School in 1911.
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From 1908 to 1913, Laddey was a probation officer in Newark.
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Paula Laddey represented the New Jersey Legal Aid Society at a national conference in 1916, and in 1919 served on a committee of the National Conference of Social Work.
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Paula Laddey wrote about workers' compensation laws for the Women Lawyers' Journal.
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Paula Laddey spoke in favor of women serving on juries.
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Paula Laddey served on the board of trustees for the State Home for Girls in Newark.
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In 1936 and 1937, Paula Laddey gave a series of lectures on women's rights, for the League of Women Voters and the Woman's Club of Upper Montclair.
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Paula Laddey spoke at a Montclair church in 1941, on the subject "Why Women Should Make Wills".
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Paula Laddey spoke on the same subject in Vermont in 1952.
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Paula Laddey had a longtime law practice in New Jersey, in partnership with suffragist Vernona Beatrice Henry.
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Henry died in 1954; Paula Laddey moved to Nogales, Arizona to live near her nephew David Laddey, and died there in 1966, aged 87 years.