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He succeeded one-term representative Madison Cawthorn, who was the youngest person elected to the U.S. Congress since Jed Johnson Jr. in 1964, the second-youngest congressman in United States history. [2] Jon Ossoff is the youngest sitting senator at 37, [3] replacing Josh Hawley, who at 41 was the youngest senator of the 116th Congress. [4]
Frost is the youngest member of Congress and the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress. [13] [6] [20] [21] [22] He was endorsed by numerous national and local political figures, including Jesse Jackson, former NAACP president Ben Jealous, civil-rights activist Dolores Huerta, and U.S. senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. [23]
Cawthorn was the youngest Republican to serve in the 117th Congress, and, at 25, was one of the youngest members ever elected to the House of Representatives. [31] [46] He is also the first member of Congress born in the 1990s. [1]
Audra Heinrichs followed him as he embarked on his first State of the Union as a sitting member of Congress ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help.
Ocasio-Cortez's maiden speech as a Representative, addressing the 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown. Taking office at age 29, Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress, and also the youngest member of the 116th Congress. [134]
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 first Gen-Z and youngest member of Congress, Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., was among the younger lawmakers who opposed the measure, which would call on TikTok’s China-based parent company ...
The youngest ever member of the House of Representatives was 20-year-old Wyatt Roy elected in the 2010 federal election after the Electoral Act 1918 was amended (in 1973) to reduce the age of candidacy for that office from 21 to 18.