U.S. Congresswomen. Born to American parents, she attended Tokyo Foreign School before moving back to the United States. There she graduated from Ward-Belmont Junior College Tennessee, in 1916, from the University of Wisconsin, in 1918 and did graduate work at the University of Hawaii. She was a newspaper correspondent, (1918-57), president of League of Republican Women in Washington, D.C., (1946-48) and president of National Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs, (1949-53). In 1954, she was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Joseph Rider Farrington and reelected to the Eighty-fourth Congress, serving until 1957. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, she returned to Hawaii, was publisher, president and director of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, (1957-63), was director and chairman of the Honolulu Lithograph Company, Ltd., (1957-63), president of the Hawaiian Broadcasting System, Ltd., (1960-63) and director for the Office of Territories, Department of the Interior, District of Columbia, in 1969. She retired to Honolulu, where she died at age 86.
U.S. Congresswomen. Born to American parents, she attended Tokyo Foreign School before moving back to the United States. There she graduated from Ward-Belmont Junior College Tennessee, in 1916, from the University of Wisconsin, in 1918 and did graduate work at the University of Hawaii. She was a newspaper correspondent, (1918-57), president of League of Republican Women in Washington, D.C., (1946-48) and president of National Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs, (1949-53). In 1954, she was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Joseph Rider Farrington and reelected to the Eighty-fourth Congress, serving until 1957. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, she returned to Hawaii, was publisher, president and director of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, (1957-63), was director and chairman of the Honolulu Lithograph Company, Ltd., (1957-63), president of the Hawaiian Broadcasting System, Ltd., (1960-63) and director for the Office of Territories, Department of the Interior, District of Columbia, in 1969. She retired to Honolulu, where she died at age 86.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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