Ben Cardin
Search results
Barbara Ann Mikulski (/ m ɪ ˈ k ʌ l s k i / mih-CULL-skee; born July 20, 1936) is an American politician and social worker who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 1987 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she also served in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987.
May 6, 2024 · Barbara Mikulski, American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1986 and represented Maryland in that body from 1987 to 2017. She was the longest-serving female senator and the first Democratic woman senator not elected as a replacement for her spouse.
- Richard Pallardy
She won her first election to the Baltimore City Council in 1971 and five years later, won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, Mikulski became the second woman in the nation’s history to serve in both chambers.
Mar 2, 2015 · All Sen. Barbara Mikulski wanted to do was to wear a pair of slacks on the Senate floor. The problem for the Maryland Democrat — one of just two women in the Senate when she joined the...
Mar 3, 2015 · When Barbara Mikulski took office in 1987, there had never been another Democratic woman elected to the U.S. Senate who wasn't appointed or succeeding a deceased husband.
Barbara Ann Milulski is known as the feisty senator from Baltimore, she is also the first Democratic woman ever to have served in both Houses of Congress, and the first woman ever to win a statewide election in her home state of Maryland.
People also ask
Who is Barbara Mikulski?
Was Barbara Mikulski a Democratic woman?
Who was Elizabeth Mikulski?
Who were Barbara Mikulski parents?
Dec 25, 1989 · The first-term senator described moving from social work and neighborhood causes into politics. Senator Mikulski served in the U.S. House of Representatives for ten years before being elected to...
- 56 min
- 1446
