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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeLouise Goff REECE
(1898-1970)
REECE, Louise Goff, (wife
of Brazilla Carroll Reece, daughter of Guy D. Goff, and
granddaughter of Nathan Goff), a Representative from Tennessee;
born in Milwaukee, Wis., November 6, 1898; educated at Miss
Treat’s School, Milwaukee Downer Seminary, and Miss
Spence’s School, New York City; member of the board of the
First Peoples Bank, Johnson City, Tenn.; chairman of the board of
Carter County Bank, Elizabethton, Tenn.; proprietor and manager of
Goff Properties, Clarksburg, W.Va.; elected as a Republican to the
Eighty-seventh Congress May 16, 1961, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of her husband, Brazilla Carroll Reece, and served until
January 3, 1963; was not a candidate for renomination in 1962 to
the Eighty-eighth Congress; remained active in State and national
politics; businesswoman with wide interests in Tennessee and West
Virginia; died in Johnson City, Tenn., May 14, 1970; interment in
Monte Vista Burial Park.
Bibliography
”Louise G. Reece” in Women in Congress,
1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on
House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation,
U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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