Catherine Small Long

Catherine Small Long

Mary Catherine Small Long (born February 7, 1924 as Mary Catherine Small in Dayton , Ohio , † November 23, 2019 in Chevy Chase , Maryland ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ). Between 1985 and 1987 she represented the eighth congressional constituency of the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Catherine Small attended Camp Hill High School in Pennsylvania until 1942 and then studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge until 1948 . During the Second World War she served in the US Navy . During her studies she met her husband, who later became Congressman Gillis William Long . After the war, she worked first for the US Senator Wayne Morse from the state of Oregon and then for the Congressman James G. Polk from Ohio.

As a member of the Democratic Party, she was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1980 and 1984. In Louisiana, she was a member of the state board of her party. After the death of her husband, she was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election for the eighth seat of Louisiana , where she took office on March 30, 1985. By January 3, 1987, she ended her husband's last legislative term. Their voting behavior was considered liberal. In 1986 she declined to run again.

Catherine Long last lived in the federal capital Washington. Her marriage to Gillis Long in 1947 had two children.

Web links

• Catherine Small Long in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• LONG, Catherine Small (1924–2019) , biography on history.house.gov (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Janet McConnaughey: Cathy Long dies; won husband's US House seat after his death. In: Associated Press , November 23, 2019. Retrieved November 24, 2019.