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Spartz is the first Ukrainian-born person to serve as a member of Congress. [41] [42] In late 2020, Spartz was identified as a participant in the Freedom Force, a group of incoming Republican members of the House of Representatives who "say they're fighting against socialism in America." [43] [44] [45] [46]
First female member Political party of first female member Years with female members American Samoa: 1 0 1 Amata Radewagen: Republican 2015–present District of Columbia: 1 0 1 Eleanor Holmes Norton: Democratic 1991–present Guam: 0 1 1 Madeleine Bordallo: Democratic 2003–2019 Hawaii Territory: 0 1 1 Elizabeth P. Farrington [a] Republican ...
Mazi Melesa Pilip [b] (born 1978 or 1979) [3] is an American politician in the Nassau County Legislature representing the 10th district. A Republican, she is an Ethiopian Jew who immigrated to Israel when she was 12 years old, and later served as a gunsmith in the Israel Defense Forces.
Hartzler won the November 2 general election with 50.43% of the vote. She is the first Republican to represent the district since 1955, and only the second since the Great Depression. She was also the second Republican woman elected to Congress from Missouri, after Jo Ann Emerson, with whom she served from 2011
Malliotakis was born on November 11, 1980, in the Manhattan borough of New York City. [1] [2] She moved to Staten Island when she was two years old and grew up in Great Kills, [3] the daughter of immigrant parents; her father is from Greece and her mother from Cuba, having left in 1959 following the rise of Fidel Castro. [1]
Bella Savitzky was born on July 24, 1920, in New York City. [6] Both of her parents were Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Chernihiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). [7] [8] [9] Her mother, Esther (née Tanklevsky or Tanklefsky), was a homemaker who immigrated from Kozelets in 1902. [7]
Susan Molinari (born March 27, 1958) is an American politician, company executive, journalist, and lobbyist from New York. A member of the Republican Party, she sat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1990 to 1997, representing Staten Island for three terms.
A member of the Republican Party, Chavez-DeRemer served as mayor of Happy Valley, Oregon, from 2011 to 2019. She is the first Republican woman to represent Oregon in the House. Additionally, she is one of the first two Hispanic women (alongside Andrea Salinas) elected to the United States Congress from Oregon.