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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaKAHN, Florence Prag
(1866—1948)
KAHN, Florence Prag, (wife of Julius Kahn), a Representative from California; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 9, 1866; moved to California in 1869 with her parents, who settled in San Francisco; graduated from Girls’ High School, San Francisco, Calif., 1883; A.B., University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1887; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, United States Representative-elect Julius Kahn, and reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (February 17, 1925-January 3, 1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventy-fifth Congress in 1936; died on November 16, 1948, in San Francisco, Calif.; interment in Home of Peace Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
Bibliography
Matthews,Glenna. “‘There Is No Sex in Citizenship’: The Career of Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn.” In We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960
. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
“Florence Prag Kahn” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990.
Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
Matthews,Glenna. “‘There Is No Sex in Citizenship’: The Career of Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn.” In We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960
. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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