Kay Granger

Kay Granger ( born January 18, 1943 in Greenville, Hunt County, Texas) is an American politician. Since 1997, it represents the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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 Planning Commission of Fort Worth; then she sat there until 1991 in the City Council. Between 1991 and 1995 she was mayor of Fort Worth. Politically, she joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1996, Granger was in the twelfth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Pete Geren on 3 January 1997. After previous seven elections they can exercise their mandate in Congress today. There she is a member of the Appropriations Committee and in three of its subcommittees. Within the party she belongs to a member of the Republican Study Committee to the conservative wing of the Republican Party. In her time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell.

Kay Granger is the first woman to be elected in Texas for the Republican Party in Congress. She lives privately in Fort Worth.