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Born in Detroit, Michigan , Byron attended Public School s, the Westover School of Middlebury, Connecticut , and Holton Arms School of Washington, D.C. , and later moved to Williamsport, Maryland in 1922. She was elected to Congress in a special election held May 27 , 1941 to replace her husband, Representative William D. Byron , after his death in an airplane crash in Georgia on February 27 , 1941 . She was not a candidate for reelection and retired in Washington, D.C. , where she died. She is interred in Riverview Cemetery of Williamsport, Maryland.

Byron was a granddaughter of U.S. Senator Louis E. McComas and her son Goodloe Byron was also a representative from the 6th district.


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