Katherine Gudger Langley

February 14, 1888 (age 60)

Langley was born near Marshall, North Carolina in Madison County, North Carolina on 14 February 1888. She graduated from the Woman"s College, Richmond, Virginia and attended Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, Master of Arts. Langley taught at the Virginia Institute at Bristol, Tennessee before moving to Pikeville, Kentucky in 1905. She held numerous appointed and elected public positions including vice chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Kentucky 1920-1922, the first chairman of the Kentucky Woman"s Republican State Committee in 1920, alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1920 and delegate in 1924, chairman of the Pike County Red Cross Society during the First World War. Langley was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a representative from Kentucky during the Seventieth and Seventy-first sessions of Congress, serving from 4 March 1927 through 3 March 1931. Langley died in Pikeville, Kentucky, on 15 August 1948.

Katherine Gudger Langley

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United States representative politician

Background

She was the wife of John W. Langley and daughter of James M. Gudger, Junior. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Kentucky.

Education

Emerson College.

Career

Langley was born near Marshall, North Carolina in Madison County, North Carolina on 14 February 1888. She graduated from the Woman"s College, Richmond, Virginia and attended Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, Master of Arts.

Langley taught at the Virginia Institute at Bristol, Tennessee before moving to Pikeville, Kentucky in 1905. She held numerous appointed and elected public positions including vice chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Kentucky 1920-1922, the first chairman of the Kentucky Woman"s Republican State Committee in 1920, alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1920 and delegate in 1924, chairman of the Pike County Red Cross Society during the First World War.

Langley was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a representative from Kentucky during the Seventieth and Seventy-first sessions of Congress, serving from 4 March 1927 through 3 March 1931.

Langley died in Pikeville, Kentucky, on 15 August 1948.

Membership

Langley was member of United States House of Representatives from Kentucky during the Seventieth and Seventy-first sessions of Congress.

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