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State State executive Legislature name Lower house Upper house Name Size [1] Party strength Term (yrs.) Name Size [1] Party strength Term (yrs.) Alabama: Governor: Legislature: House of Representatives: 105 R 76–29: 4: Senate: 35: R 27–8: 4 Alaska: Governor: Legislature: House of Representatives: 40 MC 23–16, 1 NCR [nb 1] 2: Senate: 20 ...
Altogether in 2017, women constitute 24.8% of all state legislators in the United States, [11] a ratio that has increased by less than 4 percentage points since 1994. Only four chambers have reached a near or absolute majority of women: New Hampshire Senate (2009-2010, 13/24 women [12]) Nevada Assembly (2019, 23/42 women)
Margaret Coldwell Wood Hassan [1] [2] (/ ˈ h æ s ə n / HASS-ən; née Wood; born February 27, 1958) [3] is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator for New Hampshire since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Hassan was the 81st governor of New Hampshire, from 2013 to 2017. [4]
Eleven Black women serve in statewide elected posts, 28 are in Congress and two are U.S. delegates, according to the Center for American Women and Politics. There is one Black woman in the Senate ...
Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno is facing a wave of criticism over his remarks about suburban women and abortion heading into the homestretch of the competitive race.
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber gives a speech on reparations as part of the Green & Gold speaker series in the University Union Ballroom at Sacramento State on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023.
A state senator is a member of a state's senate in the bicameral legislature of 49 U.S. states, or a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature. Description [ edit ]
The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature. The State Senate meets in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg . Senators are elected for four-year terms, staggered every two years, such that half of the seats are contested at each election. [ 2 ]