the 41-year-old namesake son of the late eight-term congressman. Idaho's other House seat also went to young Democrat, as 33-year-old Ralph Harding of Blackfoot won a second term. Idaho's other U.S. Senate seat (class 3) was also on the ballot, with 38-year-old Democrat Frank Church of Boise re-elected to the second of four terms. To date, Dworshak's seat (class 2), earlier held by William Borah for over three decades, has been continuously held by Republicans for over seventy years (since October 1949), and Idaho has yet to elect a woman to the U.S. Senate. Death After leaving the House in 1963, Pfost remained in Washington and worked in the Federal Housing Administration as a special assistant on housing for the elderly. She was hospitalized in Washington with pneumonia in October and a few months later at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Later diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, Pfost was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital several times in 1965, and died there on August 11 at age 59. Pfost's husband Jack (1883–1961) died of a heart attack four years earlier, at her Washington office during her last term in Congress. They did not have children and are buried at Meridian Cemetery in Meridian, Idaho, near her parents, William L. and Lily E. Wood Bowers, and other family members. See also Women in the United States House of Representatives References External links U.S. House of Representatives History – Gracie Bowers Pfost (1906–1965) University of Idaho Library – Gracie (Bowers) Pfost (1906–1965), papers: 1950–1962 |- 1906 births 1965 deaths 20th-century American politicians Methodists from Idaho County officials in Idaho Deaths from cancer in Maryland Deaths from Hodgkin lymphoma Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Idaho Female members of the United States House of Representatives People from Harrison, Arkansas People from Meridian, Idaho People from Nampa, Idaho Women in Idaho politics Businesspeople from Idaho 20th-century American women politicians