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It includes a list of all women who have served in the Senate, a list of current female senators, and a list of states represented by women in the Senate. The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton , represented Georgia for a single day in 1922, and the first woman elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway , was elected from Arkansas in ...
The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. This list includes all senators serving in the 118th United States Congress . Party affiliation
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:United States senators. It includes United States senators that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Female United States senators"
Majority Leader of the Indiana Senate Indiana House of Representatives: 1967 Kansas 2: Derek Schmidt (R) No Open seat; replacing Jake LaTurner (R) Kansas Attorney General Kansas Senate: 1968 Louisiana 6: Cleo Fields (D) Yes Open seat; replacing Garret Graves (R) U.S. House of Representatives [i] Louisiana Senate: 1962 Maryland 2: Johnny ...
On Thursday, 20 women were sworn into the senate -- four more women than have ever served in the Senate in the entire history of the country. The winds of change were roaring in the U.S. Capitol ...
Across both houses of Congress, Rogers' 35 years of service from 1925 to 1960 was the longest for a female member when she died in office in 1960. Her record was surpassed in 2012 by Mikulski, who served a total of 40 years in Congress from 1977 to 2017 (10 years in the House of Representatives and 30 years in the Senate).
1 Congress. 2 State. 3 Territorial and the District of Columbia. 4 Notes. 5 References. ... This is the list of women who have served as speakers and leaders of ...
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.