Vera Daerr Buchanan (July 20, 1902 – November 26, 1955) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1955.

After marrying automobile dealer and teacher Frank Buchanan in 1929, she and her husband raised twin daughters.

"[citation needed] Four years later, her husband won the May 1946 special election, filling a vacancy left in the 79th Congress (1945–1947) created by Representative Samuel A. Weiss’s resignation.

Running as a Democrat and garnering roughly 62 percent of the vote to defeat Clifford W. Flegal in the July 24, 1951 special election, Buchanan won and was subsequently sworn in to the 82nd United States Congress on August 1 by Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The first female member of Congress ever to die while still serving,[7] she was buried at the Mount Vernon Cemetery in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania.