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 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

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

It was on 8 November 1949 in a by-election in the tenth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Andrew Lawrence Somers. She was elected to the 82nd Congress and re-elected in the next five Congresses. In the congressional elections of 1962 for the 88th Congress, it was selected in the twelfth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she became the successor of Hugh Carey on January 4, 1963. She was re-elected twice in a row. In 1968 she suffered in her re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1969 the Congress of.

She died on December 14, 1997 in Alexandria.