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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Karen_SpilkaKaren Spilka - Wikipedia

    Early career. Spilka was first elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the fall of 2001, where she served three years before her election to the Massachusetts State Senate in January 2005.

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Therese_MurrayTherese Murray - Wikipedia

    Boston. Therese Murray (born October 10, 1947 [1] in Boston [2]) is an American politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate from 2007 to 2015. Murray, a Democrat, was the first woman to lead a house of the Massachusetts General Court.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › President_of_thePresident of the Massachusetts Senate - Wikipedia

    The president, therefore, typically comes from the majority party, and the president is then the de facto leader of that party. The current president of the Massachusetts Senate, since July 26, 2018, is Karen Spilka, a Democrat from Ashland. Democrats have had a majority in the Senate since 1959. [1]

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  6. www.mawomenscaucus.com › history-of-women-in-massachusettsHistory of Women in Massachusetts Government

    Though the first Senator, Sybil Holmes, served in the 1937-38 session, no other woman was elected to the Senate until 1949 when Leslie Cutler left her House seat for a successful Senate bid. In the 1970’s, however, the number of women Senators increased to a grand total of four.

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  7. www.senate.gov › senators › ListofWomenSenatorsU.S. Senate: Women Senators

    Women Senators To date, 60 women have served in the United States Senate, with 25 serving at this time (indicated in bold print below). Visit Women of the Senate to learn more about the impact of women on the Senate.

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  9. www.biography.com › political-figures › elizabeth-warrenElizabeth Warren - Education, Policies & Age - Biography

    Apr 2, 2014 · Elizabeth Warren is a Democrat from Massachusetts who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and ran for her party's presidential nomination in 2020. Search Women’s History

  10. www.jfklibrary.org › learn › about-jfkEdward M. Kennedy | JFK Library

    Edward M. Kennedy was the third longest-serving member of the United States Senate in American history. Voters of Massachusetts elected him to the Senate nine times—a record matched by only one other senator. The scholar Thomas Mann said his time in the Senate was “an amazing and endurable presence. You want to go back to the 19th century to find parallels, but you won‘t find parallels ...