Kathryn E. Granahan

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Kathryn E. Granahan

Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan (born December 7, 1894 in Easton , Northampton County , Pennsylvania , †  July 10, 1979 in Norristown , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . Between 1956 and 1963 she represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives ; then she acted as Treasurer of the United States .

Career

Kathryn O'Hay, her maiden name, attended the public schools in her home country and then the Mount St. Joseph Collegiate Institute , now Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia . Between 1940 and 1943 she served as the Supervisor of public assistance in the State Auditor General's Department for the State Government of Pennsylvania. She married the later Congressman William T. Granahan and, like him, became a member of the Democratic Party . In July 1960, she took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles , at which John F. Kennedy was nominated as a presidential candidate.

After the death of her husband, who passed away as a congressman, Kathryn Granahan was elected as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the due by-election for the second seat of Pennsylvania , where she took up her new mandate on November 6, 1956. After three re-elections, she could remain in Congress until January 3, 1963 . In 1962, she decided not to run again.

After her tenure in the US House of Representatives, Granahan was named Treasurer of the United States by President Kennedy , making it one of the highest-ranking positions in the United States Treasury . She took up this position on January 9, 1963. She was confirmed in it by the new President Lyndon B. Johnson after Kennedy's assassination and exercised it until November 20, 1966. She then retired.

Kathryn Granahan died on July 10, 1979 in Norristown and was buried in her native Easton.

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predecessor Office successor
William T. Granahan United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (2nd constituency)
November 6, 1956 - January 3, 1963 		Robert NC Nothing
personal data
SURNAME Granahan, Kathryn E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Granahan, Kathryn Elizabeth (full name); O'Hay, Kathryn (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Easton , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1979
Place of death Norristown , Pennsylvania