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Lynn Morley Martin became the first Republican woman elected to a House leadership position as vice chair of the House Republican Conference in 1985. Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman elected in both chambers of Congress; she first entered the House of Representatives in 1940, before her election into the Senate in 1948. [7]
Patsy Mink, who was the dean of women in the House from 1997 to 2002, was the longest-serving Asian-American woman in the House (and Congress). Carol Moseley Braun is the longest-serving (and first) African-American woman (and woman of color) in the Senate. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the longest-serving Hispanic or Latina American woman in the House.
Female members of the United States House of Representatives. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives . It includes members of the United States House of Representatives that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
In 2020, every single Republican who flipped a Democratic House seat was either a woman, veteran or minority. Republicans look to women, veterans and minorities in battle for House Skip to main ...
To look at the stories and images that have dominated the headlines over the past three years, you’d think that American women were all in lockstep. Galvanized by the election of Donald Trump ...
To break the current record, Republican female incumbents and challengers would have to win at least 11 of the 16 House races with female nominees that the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter ...
Anna Paulina Luna (née Mayerhofer, later Gamberzky; born May 6, 1989) is an American politician and Air Force veteran who serves in the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 13th congressional district as a member of the Republican Party. She is the first Mexican-American woman elected to Congress from Florida.
No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress on Thursday. The 17 standing ...