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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 ...
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 ...
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
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.
Never before had four women been elected to the Senate in a single election year. (Five, if Mikulski's successful re-election bid that year is counted.) Within months, another woman senator would join them: Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, who won a special election in June 1993. When the newcomers joined incumbents Kassebaum and Mikulski in ...
In the 2020 presidential election, 6.3 million Texas women voted, compared with 5.6 million men. ... Nevada Senate districts average a population of 142,000 while Texas Senate districts average ...
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 ...
1981 or 1982 (age 42–43) [1] Houston, Texas, U.S. Political party. Democratic. Education. Emory University ( BA) Harvard University ( JD) Amanda Edwards (born 1981 or 1982) is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Houston City Council. She was a candidate for the 2020 United States Senate election in Texas, in ...