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  Langley, Katherine
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NameKatherine Langley
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Pikeville, Kentucky , United States
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Born February 14, 1888
DiedAugust 15, 1948 (60 years)
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Infoborn near Marshall in Madison County, N.C., February 14, 1888; attended the common schools; was graduated from the Woman’s College, Richmond, Va.; attended Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, Mass.; taught expression at the Virginia Institute at Bristol, Tenn.; moved to Pikeville, Ky., in 1905; vice chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Kentucky 1920-1922; served as 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; elected as a Republican to the Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; railroad commissioner, third Kentucky district, 1939-1942; died in Pikeville, Ky., on August 15, 1948; interment in Johnson Memorial Cemetery.


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Husband John W. Langley 00, 1904-Jan 17, 1932
Father James M. Gudger Jr. 1855-1920

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  08/04/1934 KY District 7 - R Primary Lost 32.85% (-20.26%)
  11/04/1930 KY District 10 Lost 47.09% (-5.82%)
  08/02/1930 KY District 10 - R Primary Won 78.86% (+67.76%)
  11/06/1928 KY District 10 Won 56.12% (+12.24%)
  08/04/1928 KY District 10 - R Primary Won 79.05% (+63.39%)
  11/02/1926 KY - District 10 Won 58.40% (+16.79%)
  08/07/1926 KY District 10 - R Primary Won 48.93% (+16.71%)
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