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In 1993, she was elected to the United States Senate in a non-partisan special election, defeating Democratic incumbent Bob Krueger and becoming the first female senator in Texas history. After being re-elected to the Senate in 1994 , 2000 , and 2006 , Hutchison was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Texas in 2010 , losing the Republican ...
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, [1] and politician.A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, [2] and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House from the ...
A total of 179 women have been elected to the Texas Legislature. One hundred sixty-one women have been elected to the Texas House of Representatives, and 23 women have been elected to the Texas Senate. [9] The first woman elected to the Texas legislature was Edith Wilmans. Wilmans represented District 50 ( Dallas County) in the Texas House for ...
Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, has worked in the Texas Senate for decades, and now she is the first woman to serve as its ranking member.
The first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton; she represented Georgia for one day in 1922. Ten years later, Hattie Caraway became the first woman to win election to the Senate, representing Arkansas. In 1949, Margaret Chase Smith began her service in the Senate; she was the first woman to serve in both the House and
Greg Groogan talks with Jarvis Johnson and Molly Cook, the 2 candidates on the ballot for the special election for Texas Senate District 15. Early voting ends April 30. Election Day is Saturday.
June 27, 2024 at 1:24 PM. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) leads his Democratic opponent Rep. Colin Allred by just 4 points in a race Democrats would love to seriously compete in, according to a new poll ...
University of Texas, Austin ( BA) Judith Pappas Zaffirini (born February 13, 1946) is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from the 21st District, which includes her home city of Laredo in south Texas . Zaffririni is the first female dean of the Texas Senate. [1] Zaffirini has been named among the "Top ...