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Women in Congress

Women in the U.S. Senate

Name Party-State Dates served
Rebecca Latimer Felton Dem.-Ga. 1922
Hattie Wyatt Caraway Dem.-Ark. 1931–1945
Rose McConnel Long Dem.-La. 1936–1937
Dixie Bibb Graves Dem.-Ala. 1937–1938
Gladys Pyle Rep.-S.D. 1938–1939
Vera Cahalan Bushfield Rep.-S.D. 1948
Margaret Chase Smith Rep.-Maine 1949–1973
Eva Kelley Bowring Rep.-Nebr. 1954
Hazel Hempel Abel Rep.-Nebr. 1954
Maurine Brown Neuberger Dem.-Ore. 1960–1967
Elaine S. Edwards Dem.-La. 1972
Muriel Humphrey Dem.-Minn. 1978
Maryon Allen Dem.-Ala. 1978
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Rep.-Kans. 1978–1997
Paula Hawkins Rep.-Fla. 1981–1987
Barbara Mikulski Dem.-Md. 1987–
Jocelyn Burdick Dem-N.D. 1992
Dianne Feinstein Dem.-Calif. 1992–
Barbara Boxer Dem.-Calif. 1993–
Carol Moseley-Braun Dem.-Ill. 1993–1999
Patty Murray Dem.-Wash. 1993–
Kay Bailey Hutchison Rep.-Tex. 1993–
Olympia Jean Snowe Rep.-Maine 1995–
Sheila Frahm Rep.-Kans. 1996
Mary Landrieu Dem.-La. 1997–
Susan Collins Rep.-Maine 1997–
Blanche Lincoln Dem.-Ark. 1999–
Debbie Stabenow Dem.-Mich. 2001–
Jean Carnahan Dem.-Mo. 2001–2002
Hillary Rodham Clinton Dem.-N.Y. 2001–
Maria Cantwell Dem.-Wash. 2001–
Lisa Murkowski Rep.-Alaska 2002–
Elizabeth Dole Rep.-N.C. 2003–
Claire McCaskill Dem.-Mo. 2007-
Amy Klobuchar Dem.-Minn. 2007-

Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1917–1929
Name Party-State Dates served
Jeannette Rankin Rep.-Mont. 1917–1919; 1941–1943
Alice Mary Robertson Rep.-Okla. 1921–1923
Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck Rep.-Ill. 1922–1923
Mae Ella Nolan Rep.-Calif. 1923–1925
Florence Prag Kahn Rep.-Calif. 1925–1937
Mary Teresa Norton Dem.-N.J. 1925–1951
Edith Nourse Rogers Rep.-Mass. 1925–1960
Katherine Gudger Langley Rep.-Ky. 1927–1931
Pearl Peden Oldfield Dem.-Ark. 1929–1931
Ruth Hanna McCormick Rep.-Ill. 1929–1931
Ruth Bryan Owen Dem.-Fla. 1929–1933
Ruth Sears Baker Pratt Rep.-N.Y. 1929–1933

Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1930–1939

Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1940–1949

Name Party-State Dates served
Frances Payne Bolton Rep.-Ohio 1940–1969
Margaret Chase Smith 1 Rep.-Maine 1940–1949
Florence Reville Gibbs Dem.-Ga. 1940–1941
Katharine Edgar Byron Dem.-Md. 1941–1943
Veronica Grace Boland Dem.-Pa. 1942–1943
Clare Boothe Luce Rep.-Conn. 1943–1947
Winifred Claire Stanley Rep.-N.Y. 1943–1945
Willa Lybrand Fulmer Dem.-S.C. 1944–1945
Emily Taft Douglas Dem.-Ill. 1945–1947
Helen Gahagan Douglas Dem.-Calif. 1945–1951
Chase Going Woodhouse Dem.-Conn. 1945–1947; 1949–1951
Helen Douglas Mankin Dem.-Ga. 1946–1947
Eliza Jane Pratt Dem.-N.C. 1946–1947
Georgia Lee Lusk Dem.-N.M. 1947–1949
Katharine Price Collier St. George Rep.-N.Y. 1947–1965
Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone Dem.-Utah 1949–1953
Cecil Murray Harden Rep.-Ind. 1949–1959
Edna Flannery Kelly Dem.-N.Y. 1949–1969
1. Went on to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1950–1959

Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1960–1969

Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1970–1979

Name Party-State Dates served
Bella Savitzky Abzug Dem.-N.Y. 1971–1977
Ella Tambussi Grasso Dem.-Conn. 1971–1975
Louise Day Hicks Dem.-Mass. 1971–1973
Elizabeth Bullock Andrews Dem.-Ala. 1972–1973
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Dem.-Calif. 1973–1979
Marjorie Sewell Holt Rep.-Md. 1973–1987
Elizabeth Holtzman Dem.-N.Y. 1973–1981
Barbara Charline Jordan Dem.-Tex. 1973–1979
Patricia Scott Schroeder Dem.-Colo. 1973–1997
Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs Dem.-La. 1973–1991
Cardiss Collins Dem.-Ill. 1973–1997
Millicent Hammond Fenwick Rep.-N.J. 1975–1983
Martha Elizabeth Keys Dem.-Kans. 1975–1979
Marilyn Laird Lloyd Dem.-Tenn. 1975–1995
Helen Stevenson Meyner Dem.-N.J. 1975–1979
Virginia Dodd Smith Rep.-Nebr. 1975–1991
Gladys Noon Spellman Dem.-Md. 1975–1981
Shirley Neil Pettis Rep.-Calif. 1975–1979
Barbara Ann Mikulski 1 Dem.-Md. 1977–1987
May Rose Oakar Dem.-Ohio 1977–1993
Beverly Barton Butcher Byron Dem.-Md. 1979–1993
Geraldine Anne Ferraro Dem.-N.Y. 1979–1985
Olympia Jean Snowe 1 Rep.-Maine 1979–1995
1. Went on to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1980–1989

Name Party-State Dates served
Bobbi Fiedler Rep.-Calif. 1981–1987
Lynn Morley Martin Rep.-Ill. 1981–1991
Margaret Scafati Roukema Rep.-N.J. 1981–2003
Claudine Schneider Rep.-R.I. 1981–1991
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Dem.-Conn. 1982–1999
Jean Spencer Ashbrook Rep.-Ohio 1982–1983
Katie Beatrice Hall Dem.-Ind. 1982–1985
Barbara Boxer 1 Dem.-Calif. 1983–1993
Nancy Lee Johnson Rep.-Conn. 1983–2007
Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur Dem.-Ohio 1983–
Barbar Farrell Vucanovich Rep.-Nev. 1983–1997
Sala Burton Dem.-Calif. 1983–1987
Helen Delich Bentley Rep.-Md. 1985–1995
Jan Meyers Rep.-Kans. 1985–1997
Catherine S. Long Dem.-La. 1985–1987
Constance A. Morella Rep.-Md. 1987–2003
Elizabeth J. Patterson Dem.-S.C. 1987–1993
Patricia Fukuda Saiki Rep.-Hawaii 1987–1991
Louise M. Slaughter Dem.-N.Y. 1987–
Nancy Pelosi Dem.-Calif. 1987–
Nita M. Lowey Dem.-N.Y. 1989–
Jolene Unsoeld Dem.-Wash. 1989–1995
Jill Long Dem.-Ind. 1989–1995
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Rep.-Fla. 1989–
1. Went on to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1990–1999

Name Party-State Dates served
Susan Molinari Rep.-N.Y. 1990–1997
Barbara-Rose Collins Dem.-Mich. 1991–1997
Rosa L. DeLauro Dem.-Conn. 1991–
Joan Kelly Horn Dem.-Mo. 1991–1993
Eleanor Holmes Norton 1 Dem.-D.C. 1991–
Maxine Waters Dem.-Calif. 1991–
Eva Clayton Dem.-N.C. 1992–2003
Corinne Brown Dem.-Fla. 1993–
Leslie Byrne Dem.-Va. 1993–1995
Maria Cantwell Dem.-Wash. 1993–1995
Pat Danner Dem.-Mo. 1993–2001
Jennifer Dunn Rep.-Wash. 1993–2005
Karan English Dem-Ariz. 1993–1995
Anna G. Eshoo Dem.-Calif. 1993–
Tillie Fowler Rep.-Fla. 1993–2001
Elizabeth Furse Dem.-Ore. 1993–1999
Jane Harman Dem.-Calif. 1993–1999; 2001–
Eddie Bernice Johnson Dem.-Tex. 1993–
Blanche Lambert Lincoln 2 Dem.-Ark. 1993–1997
Carolyn B. Maloney Dem.-N.Y. 1993–
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky Dem.-Pa. 1993–1995
Cynthia McKinney Dem.-Ga. 1993–2003; 2005–2007
Carrie P. Meek Dem.-Fla. 1993–2003
Deborah Pryce Rep.-Ohio 1993–
Lucille Roybal-Allard Dem.-Calif. 1993–
Lynn Schenk Dem.-Calif. 1993–1995
Karen Shepherd Dem.-Utah 1993–1995
Karen Thurman Dem.-Fla. 1993–2003
Nydia M. Velázquez Dem.-N.Y. 1993–
Lynn Woolsey Dem.-Calif. 1993–
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Rep.-Idaho 1995–2001
Barbara Cubin Rep.-Wyo. 1995–
Sheila Jackson-Lee Dem.-Tex. 1995–
Sue Kelly Rep.-N.Y. 1995–2007
Zoe Lofgren Dem.-Calif. 1995–
Karen McCarthy Dem.-Mo. 1995–2005
Sue Myrick Rep.-N.C. 1995–
Lynn Rivers Dem.-Mich. 1995–2003
Andrea Seastrand Rep.-Calif. 1995–1997
Linda Smith Rep.-Wash. 1995–1999
Enid Greene (Waldholtz) Rep.-Utah 1995–1997
Juanita Millender-McDonald Dem.-Calif. 1996–2007
Jo Ann Emerson Rep.-Mo. 1996–
Julia Carson Dem.-Ind. 1997–2007
Donna M.C. Christensen 1 Dem.-Virgin Isl. 1997–
Diana DeGette Dem.-Colo. 1997–
Kay Granger Rep.-Tex. 1997–
Darlene Hooley Dem.-Ore. 1997–
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Dem.-Mich. 1997–
Carolyn McCarthy Dem.-N.Y. 1997–
Anne Northup Rep.-Ky. 1997–2007
Loretta Sanchez Dem.-Calif. 1997–
Debbie Stabenow 2 Dem.-Mich. 1997–2001
Ellen Tauscher Dem.-Calif. 1997–
Mary Bono Rep.-Calif. 1998–
Lois Capps Dem.-Calif. 1998–
Barbara Lee Dem.-Calif. 1998–
Heather Wilson Rep.-N.M. 1998–
Tammy Baldwin Dem.-Wis. 1999–
Shelley Berkley Dem.-Nev. 1999–
Judith Borg Biggert Rep.-Ill. 1999–
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Dem.-Ohio 1999–
Grace Napolitano Dem-Calif. 1999–
Janice Schakowsky Dem.-Ill. 1999–
1. Non-voting delegate to Congress.
2. Went on to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 2000–

Name Party-State Dates served
Shelley Moore Capito Rep.-W. Va. 2001–
Susan A. Davis Dem.-Calif. 2001–
Betty McCollum Dem.-Minn. 2001–
Hilda Solis Dem.-Calif. 2001–
Diane Watson Dem.-Calif. 2001–
Jane Harman Dem.-Calif. 2001–
Marsha Blackburn Rep.-Tenn. 2003–
Madeleine Bordallo Dem.-Guam 2003–
Ginny Brown-Waite Rep.-Fla. 2003–
Candice Miller Rep.-Mich. 2003–
Marilyn Musgrave Rep.-Colo. 2003–
Linda Sanchez Dem.-Calif. 2003–
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Dem.-S.D. 2004–
Melissa Bean Dem.-Ill. 2005–
Thelma Drake Rep.-Va. 2005–
Virginia Foxx Rep.-N.C. 2005–
Cathy McMorris Rodgers Rep.-Wash. 2005–
Gwen Moore Dem.-Wis. 2005–
Allyson Schwartz Dem.-Pa. 2005–
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Dem.-Fla. 2005–
Doris Matsui Dem.-Calif. 2005–
Jean Schmidt Rep.-Ohio 2005–
Michele Bachmann Rep.-Minn. 2007-
Nancy Boyda Dem.-Kans. 2007-
Kathy Castor Dem.-Fla. 2007-
Yvette Clarke Dem.-N.Y. 2007-
Mary Fallin Dem.-Okla. 2007-
Gabrielle Giffords Dem.-Ariz. 2007-
Kirsten Gillibrand Dem.-N.Y. 2007-
Mazie K. Hirono Dem.-Hawaii 2007-
Carol Shea-Porter Dem.-N.H. 2007-
Betty Sutton Dem.-Ohio 2007-
Laura Richardson Dem.-Calif. 2007-
Niki Tsongas Dem.-Mass. 2007-

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