Helen Marie Bennett (September 17, 1872 – April 22, 1962)[1] was an American journalist, businesswoman, and writer who organized the four women's world's fairs of the 1920s.
She served as manager of the Chicago Collegiate Bureau of Occupations and is credited with envisioning the Woman's World's Fair with Ruth Hanna McCormick.
[2][3][4][5] Helen Bennett was born on September 17, 1872, in Washington, Iowa.
She was the daughter of Judge Granville Gaylord Bennett, an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court for the Dakota Territory and as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives, and Mary Dawson.
Her formative years were spent in Deadwood, South Dakota.