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She was the first female senator to win re-election. [3] She continued to be a member until 1994, when she was defeated in a three-way Republican primary election by Scott L. Fitzgerald, with 6,098 votes for Fitzgerald, 5,613 for Herbert Feil and 5,494 votes for Lorman. [4]
Engeleiter lost the primary to then-State Senator Jim Sensenbrenner by 589 votes. [8] In April 1980, Engeleiter was elected in a special election to the Wisconsin State Senate. There she served as Assistant Minority Leader from 1982 to 1984, and as Minority Leader from 1984 to 1989. She was the first woman to serve as Minority Leader. [9]
Wisconsin was admitted to the Union on May 29, 1848. Its current U.S. senators are Republican Ron Johnson (since 2011) and Democrat Tammy Baldwin (since 2013), making it one of four states to have a split United States Senate delegation. William Proxmire was the state's longest serving senator (served 1957–1989).
Mary Lazich (born October 3, 1952) is an American Republican politician. She served five years in the Wisconsin State Assembly and 19 years in the State Senate, and was President of the Senate for her final session (2015–2016).
She served as a Republican in the Wisconsin State Senate (1987–2008) and State Assembly (1983–1987). She left the State Senate in 2008 to join the administration of Democratic Governor Jim Doyle as Administrator of State and Local Finance in the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. Until 1997, she was known as Carol A. Buettner.
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11, 1962) [1] is an American politician and lawyer serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin.A member of the Democratic Party, she has also served as the Secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017 and is the dean of the United States congressional delegation from Wisconsin.
In April 1993, Rosenzweig won a special election against Democrat David Cullen for an open seat in the Wisconsin State Senate. [2] [6] She was unseated in the 2002 primaries by fellow Republican Thomas G. Reynolds, who claimed she was too liberal on issues such as abortion and gun-control. [7]
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin will speak Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Baldwin, whose seat is up for election this fall , has served in the Senate since 2012 ...