Katharine Price Collier St. George

Katharine Price Collier St. George (July 12, 1894 – May 2, 1983) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, and a cousin of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From her mother's first marriage to Charles Albert Robbins, she was younger half-sister of diplomat Warren Delano Robbins.

St. George was a power in the House. She became the New York member of the Committee on Committees that made Republican committee assignments, voting the large number of New York Republican representatives. In her last two terms she served on the critical Rules Committee. Nine enacted public bills were sponsored by her. Session after session she introduced the Equal Rights Amendment, not proposed by Congress until she was eight years gone.

A proponent of pay equity, St. George was a supporter of the Equal Pay Act of 1963. In 1962, St. George proposed that legislation be passed to ensure that women received equal pay for equal work. 1960, and 1964, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Personal life Katharine married George Baker Bligh St. George, third son of the second Baronet St. George (see St George Baronets) and grandson of George Fisher Baker. They were the parents of one daughter:

Priscilla St. George, who married first to Angier Biddle Duke (1915–1995), an American diplomat, and an heir to the Duke tobacco empire, from 1936 to 1940; and second to State Senator Allan A. Ryan, Jr. (1903–1981) from 1941 to 1950.

St. George and her family resided briefly at 2144 Wyoming Avenue in Washington D.C. before relocating to Tuxedo Park, New York, in June 1919, where she much later died at the age of eighty-eight, in 1983.