She was a member of the town board of Tuxedo Park , New York , from 1926 until 1949 . She was chair of the Orange County Republican committee from 1942 until 1948 . She was a delegate to the 1944 Republican National Convention . She was elected to Congress in 1946 and served from January 3 , 1947 , until January 3 , 1965 . ( Her opponent in the 1956 election was Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin . ) She narrowly lost a re-election bid in 1964 against liberal Democrat John G. Dow
1944 Republican National Convention
1944 Republican National Convention
Katharine St. George