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To date, 60 women have served in the United States Senate, with 25 serving at this time (indicated in bold print below). ... 2019–2020: Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) 2020 ...
It includes a list of all women who have served in the Senate, a list of current female senators, and a list of states represented by women in the Senate. The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton, represented Georgia for a single day in 1922, and the first woman elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway, was elected from Arkansas in
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U.S. Senate time. 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 ...
Total TenureTotal TenureUninterruptedName159 years, 21 days1257 years, 176 days2Robert Byrd (S, H)356 years, 319 days3Carl Hayden (S, H)453 years, 118 days4Daniel Inouye (S, H)- Background
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The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau defines African Americans as citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. The term is generally used for...
1865-2013
The first two African-American senators represented the state of Mississippi during the Reconstruction era, following the American Civil War. Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African American to serve, was elected by the Mississippi State Legislature to succeed Albert G. Brown, who resigned during the Civil War. Some Democratic members of the United States Senate opposed his being seated based on the court case Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) by the Supreme Court of the United States, claiming th...
2013-present
Following Obama's election as president, the next two black senators, Tim Scott of South Carolina and Mo Cowan of Massachusetts, were both appointed by governors to fill the terms of Jim DeMint and John Kerry, respectively, who had resigned their positions. Thus, 2013 marked the first time in history that more than one African American served in the Senate at the same time. On October 16 of that year, citizens of New Jersey elected Cory Booker in a special election to fill the seat of the lat...
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The histograph below sets forth the number of African Americans who served in the United States Senate during the periods provided.
"African American Members of the United States Congress: 1870–2012" – 66-page history produced by the Congressional Research Service, a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress"Black Americans in Congress, 1870–2007" – 164-minute C-SPAN video with Matt Wasniewski, historian of the United States House of Representatives, as the presenter discussing the history of African...Jan 15, 2020 · initially sworn in, 5 women subsequently elected to the House, 2 appointed to the Senate, and 1 woman in the House who died in office. The very first woman elected to Congress was Representative Jeannette Rankin (R-MT, served 1917-1919 and 1941-1943). The first woman to serve in the Senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton (D-GA).
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) becomes the first Democratic woman to have been elected to the Senate without having previously filled an unexpired Congressional term. Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL) became the first woman of color elected to the Senate. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), an Asian/Pacific Islander, became the second woman of color to serve in the Senate.
Jan 12, 2015 · Women in the U.S. Senate, 1965-2023. % of U.S. senators who are women. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Starting date of congressional term. Note: Percentages are the share of women senators at the outset of each term of Congress.
