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The first women to serve in any state legislature were Clara Cressingham, Carrie C. Holly and Frances S. Klock, who were all elected in 1894 to the Colorado State House of Representatives. [4] All three were elected the year after women in Colorado obtained the right to vote through popular election in 1893. [5]
Name Image State Legislative Body Party Mandate start Mandate end Term length Minnie D. Craig North Dakota House of Representatives: Republican/NPL: January 3, 1933
The 119th United States Congress began on January 3, 2025. There were nine new senators (four Democrats, five Republicans) and 63 new representatives (33 Democrats, 30 Republicans), as well as two new delegates (a Democrat and a Republican), at the start of its first session.
Republican Rep. Liz May from Kyle, who was re-elected Tuesday, is the second longest-serving female lawmaker in the state. If she serves out her full 2025-2026 term, she’ll have served 12 years ...
Each state in the United States has a legislature as part of its form of civil government. Most of the fundamental details of the legislature are specified in the state constitution . With the exception of Nebraska, all state legislatures are bicameral bodies, composed of a lower house (Assembly, General Assembly, State Assembly, House of ...
Jo Ann Emerson entered the House of Representatives in 1997 as the first and, so far, only woman (re)elected as neither a Democrat nor a Republican from any state to either chamber of Congress. [18] She won two elections scheduled on November 5, 1996 : a special election to fill out the remainder of her husband's term in the 104th Congress ...
Eddie Mannis did not seek reelection after a single term, citing bullying by the Republican caucus. [27] Of its 99 members, [28] twenty-one were women [29] in 2020. Representatives Harold Love [30] and Raumesh Akbari hold leadership roles in the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, [31] in which eight Tennessee state lawmakers are ...
In the 2022 Minnesota House of Representatives elections, eight incumbents lost, with five Republicans and three DFLers failing to be reelected. [13] The 2023-24 class of representatives has 47 newly elected members, or 35% of the total membership. Of those 47, 25 are Republican and 19 are DFL.