Chase G. Woodhouse

Chase G. Woodhouse

Chase Going Woodhouse (born March 3, 1890 in Victoria , Canada , †  December 12, 1984 in New Canaan , Connecticut ) was an American politician . Between 1945 and 1947 and from 1949 to 1951 she represented the second constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

The Canadian British Columbia -born Chase Woodhouse graduated in 1908, the Science Hill School in Shelbyville ( Kentucky ). She then studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Chicago . She then taught herself between 1918 and 1925 at Smith College in Northampton ( Massachusetts ). Between 1926 and 1928 she worked for the US Department of Agriculture . From 1934 to 1946 she also taught at Connecticut College in New London . At this college she headed the Institute of Women's Professional Relations from 1929 to 1946 . From 1929 to 1934 she was also the Director of Human Resources for the Women's College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro .

Woodhouse was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1941 and 1942, she was the executive officer of the Connecticut government as Secretary of State . From 1942 to 1944 she was an advisor to the commission dealing with war manpower requirements . Between 1942 and 1943 she chaired her party in New London, and from 1943 to 1948 she was president of the Association of Democratic Women in Connecticut.

In the 1944 congressional election, Chase Woodhouse was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second district of Connecticut . There she took over from John D. McWilliams of the Republican Party on January 3, 1945 . Since it was not confirmed in 1946, it could initially only spend one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1947 . Their seat fell to the Republican Horace Seely-Brown . Between 1947 and 1948 she was a representative of women on the Democratic National Committee . In 1948 she was on the staff of General Lucius D. Clay , the then High Commissioner in occupied post-war Germany. In the 1948 congressional elections, Woodhouse was able to win back her previous mandate for the term between January 3, 1949 and January 3, 1951. In the 1950 elections, it failed again because of Horace Seely-Brown.

Between 1951 and 1953 she was a member of the Price Stability Board during the Korean War . In 1965, she attended a meeting to revise the Connecticut Constitution as a delegate. Chase Woodhouse died in December 1984 at the age of 94.

Web links

• Chase G. Woodhouse in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Chase G. Woodhouse in the database of Find a Grave (English)