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"first" members of Congress and how they shaped American history
Joseph Marion Hernández : first Hispanic to serve in Congress (1820s) -- Hiram Rhodes Revels : first Black man to serve in Congress (1870) -- Charles Curtis : first Native American to serve in Congress (1890s-1930s) -- Jeannette Rankin : first woman to serve in Congress (1910s, 1940s) -- Oscar DePriest : first Black man to serve in Congress in the twentieth century (1920s-1930s) -- Hattie Caraway : first woman elected to serve a full term in the United States Senate (1930s-1940s) -- Margaret Chase Smith : first woman elected to both chambers of Congress (1940s-1970s) -- Daniel Inouye : highest-ranking Asian American to serve in Congress (1950s-2010s) -- Shirley Chisholm : the first Black woman elected to Congress (1960s-1980s) -- Barbara Jordan : first Black woman elected to congress from the South (1970s) -- Gerry E. Studds : first openly gay member of Congress (1970s-1990s) -- Carol Moseley Braun : first Black woman to serve in the United States Senate (1990s) -- Nancy Pelosi : first woman to serve as speaker of the United States House of Representatives (2000s, 2010s, 2020s) -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen : first Hispanic woman to serve in Congress (1980s-2010s) -- Hillary Clinton : first woman in Congress to become a major party presidential nominee (2010s) -- Tammy Duckworth : first disabled person to serve in Congress (2010s-2020s) -- Catherine Cortez Masto : first Latina to serve in the United States Senate (2010s-2020s) -- Pramila Jayapal : first Indian-American woman to serve in Congress (2010s-2020s) -- Stephanie Murphy : first Vietnamese woman to serve in Congress (2010s-2020s) -- Ilhan Omar : first Somali-American elected to Congress (2010s-2020).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]