Congressional pathfinders : "first" members of Congress and how they shaped American history /
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- 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).