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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 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]
A record-breaking 103 women were elected or reelected to the House, causing many to call it the "Year of the Woman" in a reference to the first such year, the 1992 Senate elections. [31] [32] [33] Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland became the first Native American women ever elected to either house of Congress. [34]
Women break records in state legislatures. Both Republicans and Democrats are breaking records for the number of female state legislators this year, according to CAWP, but the net gain after the ...
A record number of female Republicans ran that year, a record broken again in 2022, when 261 GOP female candidates ran for the House, according to the Center for Women and Politics at the Rutgers ...
[c] First woman elected as both Governor and U.S. Senator Retired 6 years, 0 days [22] [23] Jane Dee Hull (1935–2020) Arizona: September 5, 1997: January 6, 2003: Republican: Elevated from Secretary of State. Later elected in her own right Term-limited 5 years, 123 days Nancy Hollister (born 1949) Ohio: December 31, 1998: January 11, 1999 ...
The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year. Sandy Senn, Penry Gustafson and Katrina ...
Before the 2010 elections, it was Democrats who controlled both chambers in 27 states versus the Republican party having total control in only 14 states, with 8 states divided, and Nebraska being nonpartisan. [2] Since this election, Republicans have maintained a majority of state legislative chambers and seats, as well as governorships nationwide.