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Katherine Gudger Langley (14 February 1888 – 15 August 1948) was an American politician. Langley was member of United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

 from Kentucky during the Seventieth

70th United States Congress

The Seventieth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1927 to March 3, 1929, during the last two years of...

 and Seventy-first

71st United States Congress

The Seventy-first United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1929 to March 4, 1931, during the first two years...

 sessions of Congress. She was the wife of John W. Langley

John W. Langley

John Wesley Langley was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, husband of Katherine Gudger Langley.Born in Floyd County, Kentucky, Langley attended the common schools.He taught school for three years....

 and daughter of James M. Gudger, Jr.

James M. Gudger, Jr.

thumb|James M Gudger, Jr. ca1912James Madison Gudger, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, father of Katherine Gudger Langley....

 She was the first woman elected to Congress from Kentucky.

Family life, education and career

Langley was born near Marshall, NC in Madison County, NC on 14 February 1888. She graduated from the Woman’s College, Richmond, VA and attended Emerson College of Oratory

Emerson College

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, Boston, MA.

Langley taught at the Virginia Institute at Bristol, TN before moving to Pikeville, KY in 1905. She held numerous appointed and elected public positions including vice chairman of the Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 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, KY on 15 August 1948.