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Harris was the second African-American woman to serve in the Senate, and, in 2020, was elected as the first female vice president of the United States. In 2021, Raphael Warnock of Georgia was elected as the first African-American Democrat to represent a former Confederate state in the Senate.
Moseley Braun was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the first African-American U.S. senator from the Democratic Party and the first female U.S. senator from Illinois. In January 2023, she was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a member and chair of the board of directors for the United States African ...
In 2024, two African-American women won their United States Senate races: ... 60.7%; first African-American senator elected by popular vote: Massachusetts 1874
Butler, appointed to the U.S. Senate by California Gov. Gavin Newsom after the death of Dianne Feinstein, leaves office after 14 months as Rep. Adam B. Schiff is sworn in Monday.
The two Democrats are also projected to be the first Black women elected to the Senate from their states. Blunt Rochester, who was Delaware's first Black female House member, is projected to ...
Kamala Harris was the first African-American U.S. senator to be elected vice president of the United States. Black women in the United States Senate are underrepresented twofold: the United States Senate has had ten Black elected or appointed office holders and only three Black female senators. [42]
It includes a list of all women who have served in the Senate, a list of current female senators, and a list of states represented by women in the Senate. The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton , represented Georgia for a single day in 1922, and the first woman elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway , was elected from Arkansas in ...
Black commentators have defended Rice, including Mike Espy, [228] Andrew Young, [229] C. Delores Tucker (chair of the National Congress of Black Women), [229] Clarence Page, [230] Colbert King, [231] Dorothy Height (chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women) [231] and Kweisi Mfume (Congressman and former CEO of the ...