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ST. GEORGE, Katharine Price Collier, a Representative from New York; born Katharine Delano Price Collier,
July 12, 1894, in Bridgnorth, England; at the age of two came to United States
with her parents, who had been living abroad, and resided in Tuxedo, Orange
County, N.Y.; attended private schools; at the age of eleven returned to Europe
and was educated in England, France, and Germany; returned to Tuxedo, N.Y., in
1914; member of the town board of Tuxedo Park 1926-1949; member, treasurer,
vice chair, and chair of the Orange County Republican committee, 1942-1948;
delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1944; member of the Tuxedo Park
Board of Education, 1926-1946, serving as president, 1930-1946; elected as a
Republican to the Eightieth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1947-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the
Eighty-ninth Congress in 1964; chair, Tuxedo town committee; died on May 2,
1983, in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.; interment in St. Marys-in-Tuxedo Church Cemetery.
BibliographyKatharine St. George 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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