Edna F. Kelly

Edna F. Kelly

Edna Patricia Flannery Kelly , nee Flannery , (born August 20, 1906 in East Hampton , New York , † December 14, 1997 in Alexandria , Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1949 and 1969 she represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edna Patricia Flannery Kelly was born and raised in East Hampton in the early 20th century. In 1924 she graduated from East Hampton High School . Then she went to Hunter College , which she left again in 1928 with a Bachelor of Arts . She was married to Edward Leo Kelly , who was a judge on the New York City Court and who died in Brooklyn in August 1942 . Between 1948 and 1968 she attended every Democratic National Convention as a delegate . She sat on the Democratic National Committee between 1956 and 1968 . Politically, she belonged to the Democratic Party .

She was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC on November 8, 1949 in a by-election in the tenth electoral district of New York to fill the vacancy created by the death of Andrew Lawrence Somers . She was elected to the 82nd Congress and re-elected to the five following Congresses. In the 1962 congressional elections for the 88th Congress , she was elected to the US House of Representatives in the twelfth constituency of New York, where she succeeded Hugh Carey on January 4, 1963 . She was re-elected twice in a row. In 1968 she suffered a defeat in her re-election and resigned from Congress on March 3, 1969 .

She died in Alexandria on December 14, 1997.

literature

• "Women in Congress, 1917-1990" , DIANE Publishing Company, 1997, pp. 127f.

Web links

• Edna F. Kelly in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Edna F. Kelly on The Political Graveyard website