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A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman elected as U.S. House Speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, leading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023.
House of Representatives: Democratic: May 30, 1966 January 9, 1967 224 days Verda James Wyoming: House of Representatives: Republican: January 14, 1969: January 12, 1971: 1 year, 363 days Vera Katz Oregon: House of Representatives: Democratic: January 14, 1985: November 10, 1990: 5 years, 300 days Debra R. Anderson South Dakota: House of ...
Additionally, the speaker is second in the presidential line of succession, after the vice president and ahead of the president pro tempore of the Senate. [2] The House elects a new speaker by roll call vote when it first convenes after a general election for its two-year term, or when a speaker dies, resigns or is removed from the position ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi strode into the Capitol on Thursday morning dressed in a suffragist-white pantsuit, flanked by top aides as her filmmaker daughter, Alexandra, who has for three decades ...
She became the first woman to be elected Speaker in its 700-year history in April 1992. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House, who helped shape many of the most consequential laws of the early 21st century, said Thursday that she
Mae Nolan entered the House of Representatives in 1923 as the first Catholic woman in either chamber of Congress. [5] Clare Boothe Luce, who converted to the Catholic Church in 1946 before retiring as a Congresswoman, was the first female Catholic convert in either chamber. [6]
2007– Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the House. 2008– Alaska Governor Sarah Palin becomes the first woman to run for vice president on the Republican ticket. Hillary Clinton ...