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2 days ago · Since 1992, there has been at least one new woman elected to the Senate every two years, with the exception of 2004 (Lisa Murkowski was elected for the first time in 2004, but had been appointed to the seat since 2002).
May 8, 2024 · Patty Murray is an American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1992 and began representing Washington the following year. Murray was the first female senator from the state, and she later became the first woman to serve as president pro tempore of the Senate (2023– ).
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May 10, 2024 · The scandal motivated a number of women to enter politics, and 1992 became known as the “Year of the Woman,” as a historic number of female politicians were elected to Congress; their seats in the Senate and House basically doubled to 6 and 47, respectively.
May 2, 2024 · We pulled US Census to get a snapshot of how women are voting. It made one thing clear: the next election is up to women. See our map showing the power of women voters in 2022 and our graph on registered voters from 2004-2022 by the numbers.
6 days ago · The 1992 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 3, 1992, to elect U.S. Representatives to serve in the 103rd United States Congress. They coincided with the 1992 presidential election, in which Democrat Bill Clinton was elected as President, defeating Republican incumbent President George H. W. Bush .
May 17, 2024 · Dianne Feinstein, American Democratic politician who represented California in the U.S. Senate from 1992 to 2023. She was the first woman to serve as senator from that state. Feinstein previously was the first female mayor of San Francisco (1978–88).
2 days ago · In November 1972, Joe Biden was elected to the Senate at the age of 29, but he reached his 30th birthday before the swearing-in ceremony for incoming senators in January 1973.
