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The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...
Tammy Baldwin is the longest-serving LGBT woman in both the House and Senate. Nita Lowey is the longest-serving Jewish-American woman in the House. Dianne Feinstein is the longest-serving (and first) Jewish-American woman in the Senate. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both inaugurated in 2019, are the first and longest-serving Muslim women in the ...
Subsequently, Patty Murray surpassed Feinstein as the longest serving woman senator, and continues to serve. In 2012, a record five new female senators were elected. This beat the record of four new female senators from 1992 and set the record of five new women and eleven female senators in one Senate class.
Having won re-election in 2010, she has surpassed Margaret Chase Smith as the longest-serving female senator. [31] ABC News named Mikulski its Person of the Week for that milestone. [ 32 ] On March 17, 2012, she became the longest-serving female member of Congress in the history of the United States, surpassing the previous record-holder, Rep ...
Begin date End date Name Party State Service Length of service March 4, 1789 June 6, 1802 James Gunn: Anti-Administration/ Federalist: Georgia: March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1801
This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 114th United States Congress listed by seniority, from January 3, 2015, to January 3, 2017.. In this Congress, Barbara Boxer (D-California) was the most senior junior senator and Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) was the most junior senior senator.
Knute Nelson is Minnesota's longest-serving senator (1895–1923). Minnesota is one of fifteen states alongside California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Utah to have a younger senior senator and an older junior senator.
Its current U.S. senators are Democrats Patty Murray (since 1993) and Maria Cantwell (since 2001) making it one of only four states alongside Minnesota, Nevada and New Hampshire to have two female U.S. senators. Warren Magnuson was Washington's longest-serving senator (1944–1981).