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From Suffrage to the Senate America's Political Women: An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes & Issues

May, Catherine Dean Barnes (1914-2004)

Republican Catherine May of Washington served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1959 to January 3, 1971. Congresswoman May represented a rural district and served on the Agriculture Committee, where she generally supported agricultural producers over consumers. She promoted domestic production of beet sugar, an important industry in her area, and advocated establishing a U.S. world food study and coordinating commission. May was defeated in her attempt for a seventh term. She served on the U.S. International Trade Commission from 1971 to 1981 and was appointed a special consultant to the president on the Fifty States Project in 1982.

Born in Yakima, Washington, May graduated from Yakima Valley Junior College in 1934, received her BA in 1936, and completed a five-year degree in education in 1937, both from the University of Washington. She studied speech at the University of Southern California in 1939. A high school English teacher from 1937 to 1940, May was a journalist and radio news broadcaster in the 1940s and 1950s. She served in the Washington legislature from 1952 to 1958.

See also: Congress, Women in; State Legislatures, Women in

References: Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives, Women in Congress, 1917-1990 (1991).

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