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May 8, 2024 · Claire McCaskill (born July 24, 1953, Rolla, Missouri, U.S.) is an American Democratic politician who represented Missouri in the U.S. Senate from 2007 to 2019. She was the first woman to be elected senator for that state. McCaskill’s family lived in several cities before settling in Columbia, Missouri. She attended the University of Missouri ...
Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-KS) was the first woman to have been elected to the Senate without having previously filled an unexpired Congressional term. 1987 Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) becomes the first Democratic woman to have been elected to the Senate without having previously filled an unexpired Congressional term.
In 1949, Margaret Chase Smith began her service in the Senate; she was the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate. Her 1960 reelection bid resulted in Chase Smith winning the nation's first-ever United States Senate election with two female major party nominees.
To date, 60 women have served in the United States Senate, with 25 serving at this time (indicated in bold print below). ... 2007–2019: Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) 2007 ...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the oldest member of Congress at the time of her death Thursday night at age 90, but not by very much. Several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are well into their...
Eight years later, Smith decided to run for the Senate—since Maine’s senior Senator, Republican Majority Leader Wallace Humphrey White Jr., revealed he wouldn’t seek a fourth term. Defeating her opponent, Democrat Adrian Scolten, with 71 percent of the vote, she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
Jan 14, 2019 · And while white women have served in Congress since 1917, and in the Senate since 1922 (though at the time only for one day), it wasn’t until 1964 that a woman of color was elected, when Patsy ...
