Marguerite S. Church

Marguerite Stitt Church ( * September 13, 1892 in New York City; † 26 May 1990 in Evanston, Illinois) was an American politician. Between 1951 and 1963, she represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Marguerite Church attended St. Agatha School in New York and then to 1914 Wellesley College in Massachusetts. By 1917, she went on to study at Columbia University in New York. In the meantime, she worked as a teacher. In the following years she worked as a psychologist. She married Congressman Ralph E. Church. How this she became a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1950 Church in the 13th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they took over from their time between late husband on January 3, 1951. After five elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1963 six legislative periods. In this time were, among others, the Korean War and the beginning of the civil rights movement. In 1961 she was a member of the American delegation at the United Nations General Assembly. The following year she gave up a new Congress candidacy.

In July 1964 Church participated as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. She was also a member of the federal board of the Girl Scouts of America. Marguerite Church died on 26 May 1990 in Evanston.