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Maxine Waters and Eleanor Holmes Norton, both inaugurated in 1991, are the longest-serving African-American women (and women of color) in the House. Patsy Mink, who was the dean of women in the House from 1997 to 2002, was the longest-serving Asian-American woman in the House (and Congress). Carol Moseley-Braun is the longest-serving (and first ...
The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...
Leahy on issues with making English the country's sole national language Recorded May 18, 2006. Patrick Joseph Leahy, OBE (/ ˈleɪhi / LAY-hee; born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he also was the president pro ...
Marcia Carolyn Kaptur (/ ˈkæptər / KAP-tər; born June 17, 1946) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Ohio's 9th congressional district. Now in her 21st term, she has been a member of Congress since 1983. A member of the Democratic Party, Kaptur is the longest-serving woman in congressional history (having ...
Seniority calculation. Seniority is calculated by: Number of total terms served (subtracting one term from the number of non-consecutive terms) Number of consecutive terms served. Alphabetically by last name [1] An additional clause applies for representatives that have a prior tenure of less than two terms.
Debbie Dingell. For the British soap opera character with a similar name, see Debbie Dingle. Deborah Ann Dingell (/ ˈdɪŋɡəl /; née Insley; November 23, 1953) is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2015, representing the state's 6th congressional district since 2023.
Having won re-election in 2010, she has surpassed Margaret Chase Smith as the longest-serving female senator. [31] ABC News named Mikulski its Person of the Week for that milestone. [ 32 ] On March 17, 2012, she became the longest-serving female member of Congress in the history of the United States, surpassing the previous record-holder, Rep ...
The late Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, the longest-serving member of the current Congress, will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall on Tuesday.