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GRANAHAN, Kathryn Elizabeth, (wife of William Thomas Granahan),
a Representative from Pennsylvania; born Kathryn Elizabeth OHay in
Easton, Northampton County, Pa., December 7, 1894; educated in Easton public
schools; graduate of Easton High School and Mount St. Joseph Collegiate
Institute (later Chestnut Hill College), Philadelphia, Pa.; supervisor of
public assistance in the State Auditor Generals Department, and liaison
officer between that department and Department of Public Assistance,
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1940-1943; member of national board, Womans
Medical College of Pennsylvania; delegate to the Democratic National Convention
in 1960; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth Congress, November 6, 1956,
by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband,
William T. Granahan, and at the same time was elected to the Eighty-fifth
Congress; reelected to the two succeeding Congresses and served from November
6, 1956, to January 3, 1963; was not a candidate for reelection in 1962 to the
Eighty-eighth Congress; appointed Treasurer of the United States and served
from January 9, 1963, to November 20, 1966; retired; died in Norristown, Pa.,
July 10, 1979; interment in Gethsemane Cemetery, Easton, Pa.
BibliographyKathryn E. Granahan in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
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