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Elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George W. B. Towns and served from January 2, 1837, to March 3, 1837; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses and served ...
In the 1992 election, McKinney was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as the member of Congress from the newly created 11th District, a 64% African American majority district reaching from Atlanta to Savannah. She was the first African American woman to represent Georgia in the House. [2] She was re-elected in 1994.
Lucia Kay McBath (née Holman; born June 1, 1960) is an American politician who has served in the United States House of Representatives from a district in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, since 2019. She represented Georgia's 6th congressional district from 2019 to 2023 and since 2025, and has represented the neighboring 7th district from 2023 ...
Carolyn Jordan Bourdeaux (born June 3, 1970) [1] [2] [3] is an American politician and educator who served as the U.S. representative from Georgia's 7th congressional district from 2021 to 2023. [4] A member of the Democratic Party, she was a professor at the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University from 2003 to 2021.
Georgia became a U.S. state in 1788, which allowed it to send congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives beginning with the 1st United States Congress in 1789. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms.
She became the first Black woman, the third woman, and second African American to chair the party. [2] She was a delegate to the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions. Senator Jon Ossoff reportedly pressed her to resign as Chair of the Georgia Democratic Party following the 2024 Georgia state elections. [11]
Additionally, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Donna Shalala became, respectively, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and the oldest woman to be elected to Congress for the first time. [36] [37] Also in 2018, Jacky Rosen became the first sitting female House one-termer to be elected to the Senate. [38]
The choice of Loeffler angered many Georgia conservatives who had supported Collins. [8] [31] [32] [33] On January 6, 2020, Loeffler was sworn in to the Senate. [34] She became the second female to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate. The first was Rebecca Latimer Felton, also the first female U.S. senator, who served a symbolic one-day term ...