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Decoding the unwritten rules on fitness for office - Chicago Tribune  Jul 28, 2016 ... A woman in the first class of female Senate pages during the 1970s writes ... Senate page candidate Ellen McConnell, of Dundee, sits near Sen. ... Much has been said over the last year about whether one political candidate or ... Capitol back in 1971 may offer an instructive tale of determining true fitness.
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H4A News Clips 7.4.15 - WikiLeaks - The Podesta Emails  8 Bill and Hillary Clinton fight new demand for email server // Politico // Josh ...... She said she supported the Obama administration in its efforts to get a deal to curtail ... The former U.S. senator and first lady has a big lead in opinion polls over ...... of mixing job opportunities with clean energy resonated with Ellen Bridenstine,...
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GitHub  Where software is built  Value: $400. Number: 26. AMERICA SINCE 1900 | In 1971 the Senate turned over a new leaf & got its first females in this job, including Ellen McConnell | Pages.
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Traditions of the United States Senate - U.S. Senate  J. Tinsley for their careful reading and experience-based suggestions. Thanks .... helping me to get started. ... in Senate historyto brief new senators. .... certain duties including signing legislation ..... Ellen McConnell. ... jobs over the next 10 years. ... Senators Charles Percy and Jacob Javits with first female Senate pages.
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U.S. Senate: Oral History - First Female Senate Pages  Oral History - First Female Senate Pages. ... accepted female appointments to the Senate page program on May 13, 1971. Soon thereafter, Paulette Desell, Ellen McConnell, and Julie Price made Senate history when they ... their sponsoring members until the Senate formally approved their appointment; the media attention;...
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Jeopary Questions page 1643 - "EZ" DOES IT - TriviaBistro.com  FEMALE FIRSTS: In 1932 Hattie Caraway planted the seed for Dianne Feinstein as the first woman elected to this body  THE CHINESE THEATRE: Cartoon...
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Politics Flashcards | Quizlet  POLITICIANS---In 1973 Lindy Boggs became the first woman elected to the house from this "Bayou State". Louisiana.
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California's senators - LA Times  Nov 8, 2014 ... ... won a historic election in 1992: They were not only California's first women senators, it was ... Each must soon decide whether she wants to run for a fifth full Senate term. ... FIRST SENATE RACE: Won 47.9% to 43% against Republican ... was assassinated at City Hall; lost election for governor in 1990.
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On This Day... in 1916: Jeannette Rankin Becomes First Woman ...  Mar 4, 2013 ... On this day in 1916, Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the United ... Her success sparked a long line of women in Congress whose ... by the press that she lost, Rankin wound up winning by over 7,500 votes. ... that "as a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
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Hanover NH High School - Diana Mara Henry  See a video of Melba Tolliver and the First National Women's Conference ( start at 12:14) ... The post-1970 generation of black Americans in Congress marked a ... Yvonne Brathwaite Burke garnered national media attention as the vice chair of ... 23, 1973, Yvonne Burke became the first Member to give birth while serving in...
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First Woman Elected to the United States Senate - National Archives ...  Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, election letter from ... Caraway was elected to her first full term to the U. S. Senate on November 8, 1932. ... from Arkansas, Governor Harvey Parnell appointed Caraway's widow, Hattie ... to the United States Senate, she was not the first woman to serve in the body.
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Jeannette Rankin - Wikipedia  Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880  May 18, 1973) was the first woman to hold federal office in the United States when, in 1916, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the state of Montana. She won a second House term 24 years later, in 1940. .... Her affirmative vote on the original House resolution made Rankin, as she...
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Maryland Senator Barbara A. Mikulski - Democratic National ...  Jul 26, 2016 ... I broke a barrier when I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right, and first woman to chair the powerful Senate...
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U.S. Senate: Breaking New Ground -- African American Senators  To date, nine African Americans have served in the United States Senate. ... Carol Moseley Braun broke new ground in 1993, becoming the first African ... the first African American since Reconstruction to represent a Southern state in the Senate. ... More women than ever before were elected to political office in November of...
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Jeopary Question, WOMEN'S FIRSTS - TriviaBistro.com  Jeopardy Question: WOMEN'S FIRSTS - In 1993 Sheila Widnall was flying high as the first woman secretary of this military branch.
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Women in the United States Senate - Wikipedia  There have been 46 women in the United States Senate since the establishment of that body in 1789. The first woman senator, Rebecca Felton, served in 1922 (for a single day), ... In June 1993, Kay Bailey Hutchison won a special election in Texas, and .... Twenty-seven states have been represented by female senators.
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19th Amendment - Women's History - HISTORY.com
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Women in the United States Congress - DigitalCommons@ILR  Dec 16, 2013 ... Congress, 1 woman chairs a House committee, and 5 women chair ... and state legislatures, records for tenure, firsts for women in Congress, ... Hattie Caraway (D-AR, 1931-1945) was the first Senator to succeed her husband and the first woman elected to a six-year Senate term. ..... 93rd (1973-1974)s. 16.
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U.S. Senate: War and Reorganization: 1941-1963  Andrew Jackson Houston made history on June 2, 1941, when he became the ... In 1932 she became the first woman elected to the Senate, and a year later the .... elected to the Senate on a write-in ballot, winning with 63 percent of the vote. .... In 1960, Democrat Lucia Cormier challenged Maine's popular senior senator,...
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Facts About Women in the House and the Senate - Infoplease  313 women have been elected or appointed to the U.S. Congress. ... Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Transportation (19831987), and Secretary of ... the record for the being the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. ... Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, became the longest-serving woman in Congress in...
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Free Flashcards about FIRSTS - StudyStack  A MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM 1940 TO 1973, THIS DOWN EASTER WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO SERVE IN THE HOUSE & SENATE, MARGARET...