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Eight Democratic women senators appear at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver. It has become a tradition at Democratic conventions for incumbent women senators to appear on opening night. Olympia Snowe of Maine arrived in the Senate in 1995, having previously served in the US House of Representatives and both houses of the Maine state ...
Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: Kirsten Gillibrand: NY: January 3, 2025: Vice Chair of Senate Democratic Outreach: Catherine Cortez Masto: NV: January 3, 2021: Deputy Secretaries of the Senate Democratic Caucus: Chris Murphy: CT: January 3, 2025: Brian Schatz: HI: January 3, 2023: Senate Democratic Chief Deputy Whip Brian ...
Duckworth is the first Thai American woman elected to Congress, the first person born in Thailand elected to Congress, the first woman with a disability elected to Congress, the first female double amputee in the Senate, and the first senator to give birth while in office.
Twenty-five women are set to serve in the Senate come January, including three newcomers — Democrats Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland, Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan.
Democratic Senate candidates Barbara Boxer, left, and Dianne Feinstein raise their arms in victory and wave to supporters at an election rally in San Francisco Nov. 3, 1992.
A third Black female senate candidate, Valerie McCray, also a Democrat, is vying for a seat in Indiana. Running in a very conservative state makes her a long-shot candidate, and she's being ...
Klobuchar was first elected to the Senate in 2006, succeeding Mark Dayton to become Minnesota's first elected female United States senator. She was reelected by a landslide in 2012, winning 85 of the state's 87 counties, before being reelected again in 2018. [1] Klobuchar's political positions align with modern liberalism.
At least one woman has represented California in the U.S. Senate for the last three decades. That streak may come to an end after the 2024 Senate election.