Doris Fleeson (May 20, 1901 – August 1, 1970) was an American journalist and columnist and was the first woman in the United States to have a nationally syndicated political column.

In 1927, she joined the New York Daily News as a general assignment reporter, eventually moving to the newspaper's Albany bureau to cover state politics.

They started a column together called "Capital Stuff" in 1933 that was published until their divorce in 1942.

She left the Daily News in 1943 to be a war correspondent for Woman's Home Companion.

[4] In 1958, Fleeson married Dan A. Kimball,[9] who had been Secretary of the Navy from 1951 to 1953, and later was President of Aerojet.