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In 1917, Montana was the first state to send a woman to the House of Representatives and to Congress; in 2025, North Dakota became the most recent state to send its first woman to the House. Women have also been sent to Congress from five of the six territories of the United States; the final territory to send a woman to the House of ...
[35] [36] McMorris Rodgers is the 12th woman to give the response, [37] and the fifth female Republican, but only the third Republican to do so alone, after New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman in 1995 [38] and the Spanish response by Florida representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the most senior female Republican in the U.S. House of ...
House of Representatives Republican: January 13, 2003: January 3, 2007: 3 years, 355 days Gaye Symington Vermont: House of Representatives Democratic: January 5, 2005: January 8, 2009: 4 years, 3 days Terie Norelli New Hampshire: House of Representatives Democratic: December 6, 2006: December 1, 2010: 3 years, 360 days December 5, 2012 ...
Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States.
Republican Incumbent Elise Stefanik beat Matt Castelli in congressional race for NY-21, marking her fifth consecutive term in the position
The number of women who will serve in Congress and governorships mostly held steady, though a slight decline in women elected to the House was the unsurprising outcome of a lackluster showing by ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives. It includes members of the United States House of Representatives that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Even as women have reached near-parity in Sacramento, the ranks of female House members from California are shrinking. For the first time in decades, men also hold both U.S. Senate seats.