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Julia Butler Hansen
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromWashington's3rd district
In office November 8, 1960 – December 31, 1974
Preceded by	Russell V. Mack
Succeeded by	Don Bonker
Speaker pro tempore of theWashington House of Representatives
In office January 10, 1955 – January 9, 1961
Preceded by	Elmer E. Johnston
Succeeded by	Jeanette Testu
Member of theWashington House of Representatives from the18th district
In office January 9, 1939 – November 8, 1960
Preceded by	Joseph Gardner
Succeeded by	Arlie DeJarnatt
Personal details
Born	Julia Caroline Butler (1907-06-14)June 14, 1907 Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Died	May 3, 1988(1988-05-03) (aged 80) Cathlamet, Washington, U.S.
Party	Democratic
Spouse	Henry Hansen
Education	Oregon State University University of Washington, Seattle (BA)

Julia Butler Hansen (June 14, 1907 – May 3, 1988) was an American politician who served as a member of theUnited States House of Representatives from 1960 to 1974. She representedWashington's Third Congressional District as aDemocrat. She was the second woman and first Democratic woman elected to Congress from Washington.

Her father, Donald C. Butler, was sheriff ofWahkiakum County and her mother, Maude Eliza (Kimball), was named Washington's "Mother of the Year" in 1960. Hansen attended public school in Washington. She attendedOregon State College from 1924 to 1926, and graduated from theUniversity of Washington (Seattle) with a Bachelor of Arts in home economics in 1930.

Hansen's political career began as a member of theCathlamet, Washington, city council, where she served from 1938 to 1946. She served in theWashington State Legislature as a member of the State House of Representatives from January 1939 until November 1960, serving as the first woman speaker pro tempore from 1955 to 1960. She served as chairman of the Western Interstate Committee on Highway Policies for 11 western states from 1951 to 1961.

She was elected simultaneously as aDemocrat to theEighty-sixth Congress and to theEighty-seventh Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States RepresentativeRussell V. Mack, and was re-elected to the six succeeding Congresses (November 8, 1960 – December 31, 1974). She served on theHouse Appropriations Committee after serving for years on Education, Labor, Veteran's Affairs, Interior and Insular Affairs Committees. Hansen voted in favor of theCivil Rights Acts of 1964,^[1]Civil Rights Act of 1968^[2] and theVoting Rights Act of 1965.^[3] From 1970 to 1974, Hansen chaired theHouse Democratic Caucus's Committee on Organization, Study and Review (called the Reform Committee) that led to a series of internal rules changes.^[4][5]

Hansen did not run for re-election to Congress in 1974, and was appointed in 1975 to a six-year term on theWashington State Toll Bridge Authority and State Highway Commission. She served as chair of the Washington State Transportation Commission from 1979 to 1981.

Edward I. Koch, later New York City mayor, recounted overhearing a conversation on the floor of the House in 1973 during a vote to fund arms replenishment to Israel during theYom Kippur War. Speaking with two other members of Congress, Hansen allegedly "went off on a bizarre tangent, saying, 'You know, I was once cheated by a Jew,' and launching into a diatribe about how she did not like Jews."^[6]

Hansen was the author of a book for children titledSinging Paddles, published by Binfords and Mort in 1935, which won the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation Award for Juvenile Literature. She married Henry A. Hansen, a logger, on July 15, 1939; they were parents of one natural son, David, and Henry's adopted son Richard. Hansen was also manager of the Wahkiakum County Abstract Company and the G. Henry Hanigan Insurance Co. in Cathlamet, and served as chairman and member of the board of trustees ofCentury 21, State of Washington, beginning in 1958.

Hansen lived in Cathlamet until her death there on May 3, 1988. She is honored by theJulia Butler Hansen Refuge for the Columbian White-Tailed Deer, aNational Wildlife Refuge established in 1972 in Cathlamet; the Julia Butler Hansen Elementary School, opened in 1994 in theOlympia School District inOlympia, Washington; and theJulia Butler Hansen Bridge connecting Cathlamet toPuget Island, Washington.

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• United States Congress."Julia Butler Hansen (id: H000174)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

• Julia Butler Hansen Papers. 1930–1984. 146 cubic feet. At theLabor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.
• Henry M. Jackson papers. 1912–1987. Approximately 1,240 cubic feet. At theLabor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

• Women in Congress profile
• Julia Butler Hansen Committee Papers - Washington State University Libraries
• Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge
• Julia Butler Hansen entry atThe Political Graveyard

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