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Campaign handbill (detail), 1953, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
FARRINGTON, Mary Elizabeth Pruett, (wife of Joseph Rider Farrington),
a Delegate from the Territory of Hawaii; born in Tokyo, Japan, May
30, 1898; attended Tokyo Foreign School and grammar schools of Nashville,
Tenn., El Paso, Tex., Los Angeles, Calif., and Hollywood (Calif.) High School;
graduated from Ward-Belmont Junior College, Nashville, Tenn., in 1916 and from
the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1918; graduate work at the University
of Hawaii; newspaper correspondent 1918-1957; president of League of Republican
Women in Washington, D.C., 1946-1948; president of National Federation of
Womens Republican Clubs 1949-1953; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1952; elected as a Republican a Delegate to the Eighty-third
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Joseph Rider
Farrington; reelected to the Eighty-fourth Congress and served from July 31,
1954, to January 3, 1957; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1956 to the
Eighty-fifth Congress; publisher, president and director, Honolulu Star
Bulletin, 1946-1963; director and chairman, Honolulu Lithograph Company, Ltd.,
1945-1963; president, Hawaiian Broadcasting System, Ltd., 1960-1963; director,
Office of Territories, Department of the Interior, District of Columbia, 1969;
was a resident of Honolulu, Hawaii until her death there July 21, 1984; ashes
interred at Oahu Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii.
BibliographyMary E. Betty Farrington 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.
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