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CONCORD, N.H. — Doris “Granny D” Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign-finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100.

Haddock died Tuesday of chronic respiratory illness at her home in Dublin, N.H., said spokeswoman and family friend Maude Salinger. She was with her family.

In 2000, Haddock walked 3,200 miles to draw attention to campaign-finance reform. In 2004, at age 94, she ran for U.S. Senate against Republican Judd Gregg. The subtitle of her autobiography, written with Dennis Burke, was “You’re Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell.”

“Her age wasn’t a factor in what she did,” Salinger said. “She never gave up. Until the end, she advocated for public funding. She wanted people to know that democracy and government belongs to us.”

Haddock was born Jan. 24, 1910, in Laconia and attended Emerson College before marrying James Haddock. She worked at a shoe company for 20 years.

After retiring in 1972, Haddock became more active in community affairs. She became interested in campaign-finance reform after the defeat of the first attempt of Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold to remove unregulated “soft” money from campaigns in 1995.

Inspiration for her cross-country trek came from the Tuesday Morning Academy, a group of women in Dublin who met at 8 a.m. every Tuesday to do ballet exercises and discuss world affairs.

“Sometimes I think it was a fool’s errand, but I think there are more people in this country who know what campaign-finance reform means since I started,” she told The Associated Press in 2000.

Covering about 10 miles a day, Haddock walked through more than 1,000 miles of desert, climbed the Appalachian Range in blizzard conditions and even skied 100 miles after snowfall made roadside walking impossible.

Burke, who co-wrote Haddock’s memoir, met Haddock as she walked through Arizona on her way to Washington.