The first woman from Connecticut to be elected to US Congress, the first woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post Read more...

A social and political reformer in Portland, Oregon, and the first woman elected to the US Congress from Oregon state. Read more...

Democratic Socialist politician, the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Read more...

A Democratic congresswoman from California, the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro was Read more...

Politician, educator, author, the first African-American woman elected to the US Congress and the first major-party African-American candidate to run Read more...

A feminist lawyer, civil rights activist, and congresswoman who served in the House of Representatives from NY. Bella Savitzky Abzug, Read more...

The first black Congresswoman from the Deep South, and the first African-American to be a keynote speaker at the Democratic Read more...

The first woman to be elected to the US Congress, instrumental in promoting women’s right to vote and an anti-war Read more...