Kay Granger

Kay Granger

Kay Granger (* 18th January 1943 in Greenville , Hunt County , Texas ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . She has represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives since 1997 .

Career

Kay Granger attended Eastern Hills High School in Fort Worth and then studied until 1965 at the local Texas Wesleyan University . In the following years she worked as a teacher and as a businesswoman. Between 1981 and 1989 she was a member of the Fort Worth Planning Commission; then she sat there until 1991 on the city council. She was Mayor of Fort Worth between 1991 and 1995 . Politically, she joined the Republican Party .

In the 1996 congressional election , Granger was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the twelfth constituency of Texas , where she succeeded Pete Geren on January 3, 1997 . Since she was re-elected in all subsequent elections, she can continue to exercise her mandate today. Her latest legislative term runs until January 3, 2021. She is or was a member of the Approval Committee and three of its sub-committees. She is also a member of several Congressional Caucuses . Within the party, she is a member of the Republican Study Committee of the conservative Republican wing. During her time as Congressman, the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , the Iraq war and the military operation in Afghanistan fell .

Kay Granger is the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in Texas for the Republican Party. She lives privately in Fort Worth.

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• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Web links

Commons : Kay Granger  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kay Granger in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Web presence at the congress