Katherine G. Langley

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Katherine G. Langley

Katherine Gudger Langley (born February 14, 1888 in Marshall , Madison County , North Carolina , †  August 15, 1948 in Pikeville , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1927 and 1931 she represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Katherine Gudger, her maiden name, was a daughter of James M. Gudger (1855-1920), who twice represented the state of North Carolina in Congress between 1903 and 1915 . She also became the wife of Kentucky Congressman John W. Langley . She attended the public schools of their home and then the Woman's College in Richmond ( Virginia ). She also studied at the Emerson College of Oratory in Boston . Before moving in 1905 to Pikeville, she taught for some time in Bristol ( Tennessee ).

Katherine Langley became a member of the Republican Party . During the First World War she headed the Red Cross in Pike County . Between 1920 and 1922, she was party chairman in Kentucky. In 1920 she became the first chairwoman of the Republican Women's Association at the state level. In June 1924 she took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland , at which President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1926, she became the first woman from Kentucky in the tenth constituency of their state in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC voted where they succeed on March 4, 1927 Andrew Jackson Kirk took. In doing so, she assumed the same mandate that her husband had exercised between 1907 and 1926. After re-election in 1928, she was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1931. These were shaped by the events of the global economic crisis. In the 1930 election she was defeated by Democrat Andrew J. May .

Between 1939 and 1942, Katherine Langley was a Railroad Commissioner for the Third Ward of Kentucky. She died on August 15, 1948.

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