Katharine Byron

Katharine Edgar Byron ( born October 25, 1903 in Detroit, Michigan, † December 28, 1976 in Washington DC) was an American politician. Between 1941 and 1943, she represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Katharine Byron, a granddaughter of U.S. Senator Louis E. McComas (1846-1907), the public schools of their home and the Westover School in Middlebury (Connecticut ) and the Holton Arms School attended in Washington. In 1922 she moved to Williamsport in Maryland. She married the future Congressman William D. Byron. Their son Goodloe should also be Congressman for Maryland later. In 1936 she became chairman of the Flood Committee of Williamsport; 1938-1940 she was sitting in the local council.

After her husband had come as the reigning congressman in a plane crash near Atlanta on February 27, 1941 killed, she was elected as a candidate of the Democratic Party as his successor in Congress, where between May 27 1941 and the third January 1943 her husband's Unopened legislative session ended. In 1942 they gave up another candidacy. Since December 1941 their term of office was marked by the events of the Second World War.

After the end of their time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Katharine Byron withdrew from politics. She died on 28 December 1976 in the German capital Washington and was buried in Williamsport.