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This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 20, 2025, the 119th 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.
The first woman to be elected to Congress was Montana's Jeannette Rankin, a Republican, in the 1916 House elections; [2] notably, this occurred before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which prohibits the federal government or any state from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. [3]
Merged into: Republican Party: 1900 1912 American Party (1904) Utah 1904 1911 American Party (1914) New York Split from: Democratic Party: 1914 1916 Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party: Minnesota Populism [140] Merged into: Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party: 1918 1944 Progressive Democratic Party: South Carolina Progressivism [141] Split ...
According to CAWP, in 2022 the number of Democratic women who ran in congressional primaries was 1.2 times greater than the number of Republican women who ran (354 Democratic women and 299 ...
America has never had a female commander in chief and Republicans historically have focused less on electing female candidates in general than the Democratic Party. The 2024 Republican ...
The Wish List was established in 1992 following an organizing effort in December, 1991, led by Lynn Shapiro who became the Executive Director. [3] Glenda Greenwald, who was president of the PAC, was among the women activists predicting that 1992 would be the Year of the Woman, and she argued that the GOP was not sufficiently funding women candidates. [4]
Laura Clay and Cora Wilson Stewart received one vote apiece at the 1920 Democratic National Convention on the 33rd and 36th ballots, respectively. They were the first women voted for as candidates for president at the national convention of a major American political party.
Republican women can vote for Kamala Harris — and they don’t need to tell anyone about it. That was the most striking takeaway from Liz Cheney’s blue wall swing-state tour with the vice ...