Katie Louchheim

Katie Louchheim (1903–1991) was a 20th-century American diplomat, Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, poet, and writer.

[1][2][4][5] In October 1934, Louchheim moved from New York City to Washington, where her husband would help organize the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under Joseph P. Kennedy during the first stage of FDR's New Deal.

[1][2][3][4][5] She was the first woman to address the incoming class of junior Foreign Service Officers at their swearing-in ceremony in 1967.

[5] On June 25, 1926, she married Walter C. Louchheim, Jr., an investment counselor, also of German-Jewish ancestry, in Hamburg, Germany; he died in 1973.

[1][2] The biographical dictionary Notable American Women calls her "the most important Democratic party woman in the 1950s.

[2] Her book The Making of the New Deal contained writings from New Dealers, including Alger Hiss, Donald Hiss, Thomas Corcoran, James H. Rowe, Robert C. Weaver, Paul A. Freund, Wilbur J. Cohen, Abe Fortas, David Riesman, and Joseph Rauh.