Dorla Eaton Kemper

Dorla Dean Eaton Kemper (September 10, 1929 – June 19, 2025) was an American civic leader who served as the 37th president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Biography Kemper was born Dorla Dean Eaton on September 10, 1929, in Calhoun, Missouri, to Paul McVay Eaton and Jessie Lee Eaton.

She joined the Emigrant Trail Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution in Auburn, California, on April 17, 1971. She served as the State Regent of California DAR from 1984 to 1986 and as Recording Secretary General of the national society from 1986 to 1989. During her presidency, she awarded members of the society the "Kemper Key".

In May 1995, she was invited by Elizabeth II to attend a Thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral commemorating the end of World War II.

In 1997, the Children of the American Revolution (CAR) sued the Daughters of the American Revolution following Kemper locking them out of their headquarters at DAR Constitution Hall. She and Honorary President General Ann Fleck led a candlelight march with over fourteen-thousand participants across the Arlington Memorial Bridge.