[1] She also became the vice-president of the Young Democratic Clubs of America in 1943, being the first woman to hold that position.
[2] In the summer of 1935, she also attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. After receiving her degree, she worked for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in its Birmingham office for three years.
McElroy married her first husband, Peter Vredenburgh, on December 27, 1940; they had met when he came to Birmingham to attend the funeral of Speaker Will Bankhead.
[1] In 1962, Dorothy remarried to John W. Bush, who was at the time a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
[1] She died of lung cancer on December 21, 1991, in Naples, Florida.