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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.
Engeleiter lost the primary to then-State Senator Jim Sensenbrenner by 589 votes. [8] In April 1980, Engeleiter was elected in a special election to the Wisconsin State Senate. There she served as Assistant Minority Leader from 1982 to 1984, and as Minority Leader from 1984 to 1989. She was the first woman to serve as Minority Leader. [9]
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 four 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 defeated GOP challenger Eric Hovde in a state that Donald Trump won this year, preventing another seat from flipping red after Democrats lost their Senate majority
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 ...
She served as a Republican in the Wisconsin State Senate (1987–2008) and State Assembly (1983–1987). She left the State Senate in 2008 to join the administration of Democratic Governor Jim Doyle as Administrator of State and Local Finance in the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. Until 1997, she was known as Carol A. Buettner.
Republican Joan Ballweg lost in her newly redrawn district in central Wisconsin, and Republican Duey Stroebel lost in his new district in the WOW counties. ... 30th Senate District. He beat ...