About Katherine Burns Mabry
Lived 1886 – 1958 (aged 71–72). Katherine Burns Mabry was a lawyer.
Katherine Burns Mabry (1886–1958) was one of New Mexico’s first female lawyers and the First Lady of New Mexico from 1947 to 1951.
Mabry was born on August 10, 1886, in Kansas to Enoch M. Burns and Sarah Emily Powell. She was the second wife of State Senator Thomas J. Mabry, and received her law degree from Columbia University in New York. In 1917, she became the first female admitted to practice law in New Mexico. She thereafter practiced law in the office of her husband, who was also an attorney. She died on September 9, 1958, in New Mexico.
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Katherine Burns Mabry was born in 1886.
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