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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.
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 seven states to have a split United States Senate delegation. William Proxmire was the state's longest serving senator (served 1957–1989).
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 ...
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 1932. Since its establishment in 1789, 60 women have served in the upper house of the United States Congress .
Kathryn Morrison (May 22, 1942 – June 30, 2013) [1] was an American educator and Democratic Party politician who was the first woman to be elected to serve in the Wisconsin Senate. [2] Morrison was born in Madison, Wisconsin , and graduated from Madison East High School . [ 3 ]
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Wisconsin. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Wisconsin.
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]
This is a complete list of all people who previously served in the United States Senate. As of December 2024 [update] , a total of 2,006 persons have served in the senate (including those currently serving).