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Felton was sworn in on November 21, 1922, and served just 24 hours. At the age of 87, she was the oldest freshman senator to enter the Senate. Felton was the only woman to have served as a senator from Georgia until the appointment of Kelly Loeffler in 2020, nearly 100 years later.
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 1932. As of January 2025, 64 women have served in the upper house of the United States Congress , of which 26 (16 Democrats and 10 Republicans) are currently ...
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Rose Oliva waited 100 1/2 years to meet her twin great-grandsons. Oliva's priceless reaction to meeting the newest members of her family was captured on video and shared on TikTok, where it has ...
Eighty-three years after leaving her master’s program at Stanford University for love, 105-year-old Virginia “Ginger” Hislop returned to earn her degree.
Her record was surpassed in 2012 by Mikulski, who served a total of 40 years in Congress from 1977 to 2017 (10 years in the House of Representatives and 30 years in the Senate). Maxine Waters and Eleanor Holmes Norton , both inaugurated in 1991, are the longest-serving African-American women (and women of color) in the House.
A woman in New Mexico has a tradition with her wife’s 85-year-old grandpa that’s been going strong for four years. ... (PlayStation 4) so they can game together,” she said.
The following is a list of living centenarians (living people who have attained the age of at least 100 years) known for reasons other than just their longevity. For more specific lists of people (living or deceased) who are known for these reasons, see lists of centenarians .