Kathryn E. Granahan
Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan (
December 7,
1894 -
July 10,
1979) was a
Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
Pennsylvania.
Born Kathryn Elizabeth O'Hay in
Easton, PA. She graduated from Mount St. Joseph Collegiate Institute (later
Chestnut Hill College) in
Philadelphia, PA. 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-
1943. She was also a member of national board,
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She was a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in
1960.
She was elected as a Democrat to the
84th 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 General Arthur Summerfield to pass the Granahan bill "to seize and detail the mail of anyone suspected of trafficking in obscenity."
[ 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 from
January 9,
1963, to
November 20,
1966. She died in
Norristown, PA.
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