- Kathryn E. Granahan
Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan (
December 7 ,1894 -July 10 ,1979 ) was a Democratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Born Kathryn Elizabeth O'Hay in
Easton, PA . She graduated from Mount St. Joseph Collegiate Institute (laterChestnut Hill College ) inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania . She was supervisor of public assistance in the State Auditor General’s Department, and liaison officer between that department and Department of Public Assistance, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1940 to 1943. She was also a member of national board,Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania . She was a delegate to the1960 Democratic National Convention .She was elected as a Democrat to the
84th United States Congress in 1956, by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband,William T. Granahan and served until 1963. She served as chair of the House Subcommittee on Postal Operations, and worked with Postmaster GeneralArthur Summerfield to pass the Granahan bill "to seize and detain the mail of anyone suspected of trafficking in obscenity." [ [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/greatpinkscare/privacy2.html Independent Lens] ] She was not a candidate for reelection in 1962.After her term in Congress, she was appointed
Treasurer of the United States and served fromJanuary 9 ,1963 , toNovember 20 ,1966 . She died inNorristown, Pennsylvania .ources
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* [http://icreport.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r106:44:./temp/~r106PVDCqL:: Remarks by Joseph M. Hoeffel of Pennsylvania]
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grainger-gransback.html The Political Graveyard]References
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