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Mae Nolan was elected to fill both vacancies, and served from January 23, 1923, to March 3, 1925. [1] The Nolans' grave at Holy Cross Cemetery. Nolan was the fourth woman elected to Congress, after Jeannette Rankin, Alice Mary Robertson, and Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck. All four were elected as Republicans to the House of Representatives.
John Ignatius Nolan (January 14, 1874 – November 18, 1922) was an American iron molder and politician who represented a Californian district in the United States House of Representatives for five terms from 1913 to 1922. He was elected to a sixth consecutive term but died before the start of the new Congress.
House No 46.5* 24 Ralph Norman: Republican South Carolina: House Yes 43.4* 25 Kenny Marchant: Republican Texas House No 33.7* 26 Lloyd Doggett: Democratic Texas House Yes 29.7* 27 Brad Schneider: Democratic Illinois: House Yes 27.2* 28 Nita Lowey: Democratic New York: House No 24.8* 29 Jim Sensenbrenner: Republican Wisconsin House No 21.8* 30 ...
Mae Nolan entered the House of Representatives in 1923 as the first Catholic woman in either chamber of Congress. [6] Clare Boothe Luce , who converted to the Catholic Church in 1946 before retiring as a Congresswoman, was the first female Catholic convert in either chamber.
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of December 14, 2024, the 118th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
U.S. House of Representatives [a] Arizona House of Representatives U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Corporal: 1979 Delaware: Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) 3rd (93rd overall) No Open seat; replacing Tom Carper (D) [2] U.S. House of Representatives [b] Delaware Secretary of Labor 1962 Indiana: Jim Banks (R) 2nd (92nd overall) No Open seat; replacing Mike ...
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, ...
Allocation of seats by state, as percentage of overall number of representatives in the House, 1789–2020 census. United States congressional apportionment is the process [1] by which seats in the United States House of Representatives are distributed among the 50 states according to the most recent decennial census mandated by the United States Constitution.