Mary Lasker
Mary Lasker | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mary Woodard November 30, 1900 |
| Died | February 21, 1994 (aged 93) |
| Education | University of Wisconsin, Madison Radcliffe College (B.A.) University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Activist Philanthropist Lobbyist Art dealer |
| Organization | list |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) |
Paul Reinhardt
(m. 1926; div. 1934) |
| Parent(s) | Frank Elwin Woodard Sara Johnson Woodard |
| Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom (1969) Four Freedoms Award (1987) Congressional Gold Medal (1987) Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal for Humanitarianism (1992) |
Mary Woodard Lasker (November 30, 1900 – February 21, 1994) was an American health activist and philanthropist. She worked to promote and raise funds for medical research. She reorganized the American Cancer Society and founded the Lasker Foundation together with her husband Albert Lasker.