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Rebecca Latimer Felton (D-Georgia), the first female member of the United States Senate, who served for a single day in 1922. One woman (Barbara Mikulski) was reelected and four women were elected to the Senate in 1992, the "Year of the Woman," Left to right: Senators Murray, Moseley Braun, Mikulski, Feinstein, and Boxer.
Total. 100. Independent Sens. Angus King of Maine, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia caucus with the Democratic Party; [1][2][3][4] independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona does not caucus with the Democrats, but is "formally aligned with the Democrats for committee purposes." [5]
Katie Elizabeth Britt (née Boyd; born February 2, 1982) is an American politician and attorney serving since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Alabama.A member of the Republican Party, Britt is the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama and the youngest Republican woman to be elected to the Senate. [1]
January 3, 2023 at 11:29 AM. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.,was elected Senate president pro tempore Tuesday, becoming the first woman to hold the job since its inception and putting her third in the ...
Recorded September 14, 2022. Ladda Tammy Duckworth[3](born March 12, 1968) is an American politician and retired Army National Guardlieutenant colonelserving as the juniorUnited States senatorfrom Illinoissince 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented Illinois's 8th congressional districtin the United States House of ...
From 1979 to 1993, there were no black members of the United States Senate. Between 1993 and 2010, three black members of the Illinois Democratic Party would hold Illinois's Class 3 Senate seat at different times. Carol Moseley Braun entered the Senate in 1993 and was the first African-American woman in the Senate. [4] She served one term.
v. t. e. Kamala Devi Harris (pronounced / ˈkɑːmələ ˈdeɪvi / ⓘ [1], born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who has been the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021, serving under President Joe Biden. Harris is the Democratic Party 's nominee for president in the 2024 election.
Jon Ossoff is the youngest sitting senator at 37, [3] replacing Josh Hawley, who at 41 was the youngest senator of the 116th Congress. [4] Ossoff is the youngest person elected to the U.S. Senate since Don Nickles in 1980. [5][6] The average age of senators is higher now than in the past. [7] In the 19th century, several state legislatures ...