As minority leader of the House, this San Franciscan is the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. Congress
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Nancy Pelosi - Wikipedia  Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi is the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 52nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. She is the only woman to have served as the House Speaker and to date is ... After moving to San Francisco, Pelosi worked her way up in Democratic...
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Nancy Pelosi Fast Facts - CNN.com  Mar 1, 2013 ... Here's an in-depth look at the life of House Minority Leader Nancy ... 1984 - San Francisco Democratic National Convention Host ... 1987-1993 - Represents California's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. ... and becomes the highest ranking woman in congressional history.
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Nancy Pelosi Becomes First Female House Speaker | PBS NewsHour  Jan 2, 2007 ... Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the House, the NewsHour ... and made her the highest-ranking elected woman in U.S. history. It was a long road from 1987, when, at the age of 47, she first ran for Congress in San Francisco, ... JOHN BURTON, Former California Democratic Leader: Sala's...
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Nancy Pelosi - San Francisco Wiki - Wikia  She is currently the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, a position she ... This made her the highest ranking female politician in American history. ... In 1986, after Congresswoman Sala Burton chose not to run for a new term as the...
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CNN.com - Democrats pick Pelosi as House leader - Nov. 15, 2002  Nov 15, 2002 ... Nancy Pelosi, D-California, was elected House minority leader by Democrats ... U.S.  World  World Business  Technology  Science & Space ... "I didn't run as a woman," said Pelosi, a liberal who represents San Francisco. ... Menendez becomes the highest-ranking Hispanic in congressional history. Rep.
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Leadership in Congress: It's a Party Matter [ushistory.org]  Even though political parties do not play as big a role in elections as they once did, ... After each legislative election the party that wins the most representatives is designated the ... Because the House has 435 members to the Senate's 100, House leaders tend to ... The minority leader heads and organizes the minority party.
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Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives ...  The only exceptions during this period were Charles A. Halleck who became Republican House leader and Minority Leader from 1959 to 1965, Hale Boggs who...
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Milestones for Women in American Politics | CAWP  Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first woman to run for the U.S. House of ... Rankin, a Republican from Montana became the first woman ever elected to Congress. ... became acting mayor of Seattle, the first woman to lead a major American city. .... At its convention in New York, the Democratic party also added to its charter a...
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Designing Women Online - History: Women of the House  It had been almost four years since we last saw Suzanne Sugarbaker spread across the ... Women of the House was to be a situation comedy centering on the ... Natalie Hollingsworth, is an uptight working woman determined to make it to the top ... The character of Suzanne's rival, Congresswoman Seizmore (played by...
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Women in the United States House of Representatives - Wikipedia  Other countries  Atlas  v  t  e. Women have served in the United States House of Representatives since the 1917 entrance of ... Mae Ella Nolan was the first woman elected to her husband's seat in Congress, ... 100th, 19871989, 26, 4.9% ... Notes: "% of party" is taken from voting members at the beginning of the Congress...
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Chapter 6- The Organization of Congress - Anderson School District ...  The House of Representatives has representation based on population with 435 total ... Below you will see an example of South Carolina's voting districts. ... Jim Clyburn is an important man in Congress, serving as the minority whip. ... Why does the majority party often get the credit or blame for everything Congress does?
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Charles Marion Russell - Wikipedia  Along with Jeannette Rankin, the first female member of the United States Congress, Russell represents Montana in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the...
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Maxine Waters - Wikipedia  Maxine Moore Waters (ne Carr; born August 15, 1938) is the U.S. Representative for ... She has been re-elected consistently with at least 70% of the popular vote in the ... Waters was chair of the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997 to 1998. .... Following a 1996 San Jose Mercury article alleging the complicity of the...
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Commission News | House Democracy Partnership  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader John Boehner ... and Congressman David Dreier (R-CA) was reappointed Ranking Minority Member.
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus |  Washington, D.C.  Today, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairwoman Linda T. Snchez released the following statement on the fourth anniversary of the...
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Women in the United States House of Representatives - Wikipedia  Women have served in the United States House of Representatives since the 1917 entrance of ... She thereby became a placeholder merely finishing out her late husband's elected term. ... Smith of Maine, who served a total of 32 years in both houses and became the first woman elected to both the House and the Senate.
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Herstory - Representation 2020  She was the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate. ... Before becoming involved in politics, Ros-Lehtinen was a teacher, having graduated with a...
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Leadership in Congress: It's a Party Matter [ushistory.org]  The majority leader usually the second ranking member of the majority party, is the ... although they generally have less power than do leaders in the House.
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Sandra Day O'Connor - Wikipedia  Prior to O'Connor's appointment to the Court, she was an elected official and judge in Arizona serving as the first female Majority Leader in the United States as...
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The First African-American Woman Elected to Congress | US House ...  The First African-American Woman Elected to Congress ... Trained as a school teacher, Chisholm served two terms in the New York state legislature before winning ... She sponsored increases in federal funding to extend the hours of daycare...
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Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (1902 - 1968) - Genealogy - Geni  Feb 23, 2016 ... Daughter of William B. Bankhead, 47th Speaker of the United States House of .... Born to a prestigious family (her father became a prominent ... Her father was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 19361940. ... She was famous not only as an actress but also for her many affairs,...