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2 days ago · Mary Marsha Blackburn (née Wedgeworth; born June 6, 1952) is an American politician and businesswoman serving as the senior United States senator from Tennessee. Blackburn was first elected to the Senate in 2018.
4 days ago · 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. Learn more about her life and career.
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1 day ago · The book "The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President" tells of T.R., as he was known, shaped by five women, his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, his first wife, Alice, who ...
4 days ago · She was the first female secretary of transportation (1983–87); the first female executive of the American Red Cross (1991–99) since its founder, Clara Barton; and the first serious female contender for the Republican presidential nomination (2000). Dole also served in the U.S. Senate from 2003 to 2009.
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3 days ago · In 1998 Murkowski ran for and was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives. In 2002 her father left the U.S. Senate to become governor, and in one of his first acts in office he selected her to serve out the remainder of his Senate term. She assumed the post the following year, and in 2004 she was elected to a full term.
1 day ago · Johnson on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 's passage. Recorded July 2, 1964. Lyndon Baines Johnson ( / ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz /; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
1 day ago · The United States Senate and the lower chamber of Congress, the United States House of Representatives, comprise the federal bicameral legislature of the United States. Together, the Senate and the House maintain authority under Article One of the U.S. Constitution to pass or defeat federal legislation. The Senate has exclusive power to confirm ...
