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 U.S. House of Representatives; then she served as Treasurer of the United States.

Career

Kathryn O'Hay, so her maiden name, attended the public schools of their home and then the Mount St. Joseph Collegiate Institute, now known as Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. Between 1940 and 1943 she worked as a supervisor of public assistance in the State Auditor General 's Department of the State Government of Pennsylvania. She married the future Congressman William T. Granahan and was like this, a member of the Democratic Party. In July 1960, she participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in part, was nominated on the John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate.

After the death of her husband, who died as a congressman, Kathryn Granahan was in the overdue election for the second seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they took up their new mandate on November 6, 1956. After three elections they could remain until January 3, 1963 at the Congress. In 1962 they gave up another candidacy.

After the end of their time in the U.S. House of Representatives Granahan was appointed by President Kennedy to the Treasurer of the United States and was therefore one of the most senior positions in the Treasury of the United States held. This office she went to on January 9, 1963. It was confirmed after Kennedy's assassination by the new President Lyndon B. Johnson in it and practiced it out until November 20, 1966. Then she retreated into retirement.

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