Langley was a member of United States House of Representatives from Kentucky during the Seventieth and Seventy-first sessions of Congress.

[2] She was the wife of Kentucky politician John W. Langley and daughter of James M. Gudger, Jr., a four-term Congressman from North Carolina.

[5] Katherine Langley served as chairman of the Pike County Red Cross Society during the First World War.

[4] John Langley was convicted of violating the Volstead Act by selling alcohol illegally and trying to bribe a federal officer.

After his appeal was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1926 he resigned from his office in Congress as Kentucky's representative for the 10th District.

[6] Because of her husband's conviction and disgraceful resignation, she was marginalized in social circles that once had accommodated her flamboyant style: a reporter wrote of "her unstinted display of gypsy colors on the floor.