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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]
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 20, 2025, the 119th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
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 ...
*The all-time record for women serving simultaneously in the Senate was actually set at 26 earlier in the 116th Congress, during the period after Kelly Loeffler (a Republican appointed to fill a ...
The number of Republican women in the House has tripled to a record 36, including two nonvoting members. This time, any gains could help the GOP grow from its current narrow majority, which has ...
Republican women see declines in Congress. Women’s representation in Congress is lopsided toward Democrats. And one of the starkest partisan differences, Dittmar said, can be seen among the non ...
Republican South Carolina House No 14.6* 37 Bill Foster: Democratic Illinois House Yes 14.1* 38 Dan Newhouse: Republican Washington House Yes 13.8* 39 Carolyn Maloney: Democratic New York House No 13.0* 40 Earl Blumenauer: Democratic Oregon: House Yes 12.6* 41 Mike Kelly: Republican Pennsylvania: House Yes 12.4* 42 Mike Conaway: Republican ...
Women were just 14% of both Republican House and Senate candidates in 2018; two years later, that had increased to 17% of Senate and 21% of House candidates, according to CAWP.