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Located in South Florida, Wilson's congressional district, numbered 17th during her first term, covers a large swath of eastern Miami-Dade County. The district contains most of Miami's majority-black precincts. Wilson gained national attention in 2012 for her comments on the death of Trayvon Martin. [1] [2] Wilson is a member of the Democratic ...
Deborah Wasserman Schultz (née Wasserman; / ˈ w ɑː s ər m ən /; born September 27, 1966) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 25th congressional district, first elected to Congress in 2004. A member of the Democratic Party, she is a former chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (/ ˈ ʃ ɜːr f ɪ l ə s / SHUR-fill-əss; born January 25, 1979) [1] is an American businesswoman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 20th congressional district. Her district covers most of the Black-majority areas in and around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
Carrie Mae Meek (née Pittman; April 29, 1926 – November 28, 2021) was the United States representative for Florida's 17th congressional district, from 1993 to 2003.. Having been elected in the September 1992 primary with no general election opponent, she was the first African American since the Reconstruction era elected to represent Florida in the United States Congress, where she ...
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Florida. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Florida. The list of names should be complete, but ...
Salzman was raised in Pensacola, Florida.After graduating high school in 1995, she says she joined the Army when she was 17 to escape an abusive home. [8] [1] Salzman states that her father was an abusive alcoholic and her mother became addicted to opioids when she was in middle school; Salzman has stated that both of her parents died at an early age from opioid addiction. [9]
Valdez Venita Demings (née Butler; born March 12, 1957) is an American politician and former police officer who served as U.S. representative for Florida's 10th congressional district from 2017 to 2023. The district covered most of the western half of Orlando and includes much of the area around Orlando's resort parks.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (/ ˌ ɪ l i ˈ ɑː n ə r ɒ s ˈ l eɪ t ən ə n / Il-ee-AH-nə ross LAY-tən-ən; née Ileana Carmen Ros y Adato; born July 15, 1952) is a politician and lobbyist from Miami, Florida, who represented Florida's 27th congressional district from 1989 to 2019. By the end of her tenure, she was the most senior U.S ...