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Name Image State Legislative Body Party Mandate start Mandate end Term length Minnie D. Craig North Dakota House of Representatives: Republican/NPL: January 3, 1933
Retired to run successfully for the 1948 United States Senate election in Maine, thus becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either. Florence Gibbs (1890–1964) [x] Democratic: Georgia's 8th: October 1, 1940: January 3, 1941: Retired Katharine Byron (1903–1976 ...
She was the first Black woman nominated for the office by an American political party. [11] Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith was a candidate for the Republican Party nomination in 1964, becoming the first woman to seek the nomination of a major party for president. She qualified for the ballot in six state primaries and finished second in the ...
Here are the most powerful women in politics this year. Rep. Nancy Pelosi Pelosi holds a history-making role in the U.S. government as the first and only woman to serve as speaker of the House.
The most powerful women in the world — as deemed by Forbes — have been revealed. With the release of their female-specific 2024 Power List, the magazine has crowned 100 women the ultimate ...
Second ladies and gentlemen of the United States (4 C, 41 P) Pages in category "American women in politics" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total.
'Someone who was special' Harris, 59, and Pelosi, 84, come from different political generations, but both have bridged San Francisco’s long activist tradition and its old-school local Democratic ...
It includes a list of all women who have served in the Senate, a list of current female senators, and a list of states represented by women in the Senate. The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton , represented Georgia for a single day in 1922, and the first woman elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway , was elected from Arkansas in ...