Category: Presidential or VP Candidate

Michele Bachmann
Michele M Bachmann


Michele Bachmann represented Minnesota's 6th District in the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015. She was the first Republican woman to represent Minnesota in Congress. Bachmann was born April 6, 1956, in Waterloo, Iowa. In 1968, Bachmann's family moved to Minnesota. In 1978, Bachmann graduated from Winona State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and English. In 1986, she received her Juris Doctorate from Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University. In 1988, she completed her L.L.M. in tax law at the […]
Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Moseley Braun


Carol Moseley Braun served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 1993 to 1999. She was the first African American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate (and the only one until Kamala Harris was elected to the Senate from California in 2016), and was the first female senator from Illinois. Moseley Braun was born on August 16, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in political science in 1969 and obtained her juris doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in […]
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm


Shirley Chisholm served as a New York U.S. Representative from 1969 to 1982. She was the first African American woman to serve in the United States Congress, and the first African American candidate to seek a major party's nomination for president, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Chisholm was born November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. From age three to ten, Chisholm lived with her grandmother in Barbados, then returned to New York. Chisholm attended Brooklyn College, graduating in 1946 with a bachelor's […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton


Hillary Rodham Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president of the United States, the first women to be nominated for U.S. president on a major party ticket. She served as United States secretary of state from January 2009 to February 2013, United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and first lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992. She is the only U.S. first lady to hold elective office and to serve in […]
Elizabeth Dole
Elizabeth Dole


Elizabeth Dole served as a U.S. senator for North Carolina from 2003 to 2009, as U.S. secretary of labor under President George H.W. Bush, and as U.S. secretary of transportation under President Reagan. Dole was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, on July 29, 1936. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Duke University in 1958, a Master of Arts degree in education and government from Harvard University in 1960 and a Harvard law degree in 1965. From 1969 to 1973, Dole served as deputy assistant to […]
Frances “Sissy” Farenthold
Frances "Sissy" Farenthold


Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold is a politician, attorney, activist and educator who placed second in nomination for the office of vice president of the United States at the 1972 Democratic National Convention, the first woman to be seriously considered as a vice-presidential candidate in the United States. Farenthold was born on October 2, 1926 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her grandfather, Judge Benjamin D. Tarlton, Sr., served as chief justice of the Texas Court of Civil Appeals, a state legislator and a professor at the University of Texas School of Law. […]
Geraldine A Ferraro
Geraldine A Ferraro


Geraldine A. Ferraro served in the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 9th District, from 1979 to 1985. In 1984, she was the first woman vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket. Ferraro was born August 26, 1935, in Newburgh, New York. She attended Marymount College in New York City, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1956. She taught in the New York public schools while completing her law degree from Fordham University, receiving her degree in 1960. Following college, Ferraro practiced law, worked […]
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina


Carly Fiorina is a business executive who was a Republican candidate in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. She served as chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to lead a Fortune 50 business. Fiorina was born September 6, 1954, in Austin, Texas. She received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and medieval history from Stanford University in 1976. In 1980, she earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland, and in 1989, she earned a Master of Science in business from the […]
Lenora B Fulani
Lenora B Fulani


Lenora Branch Fulani is an American psychologist, psychotherapist and political activist. In the 1988 presidential election, she became the first woman and the first African American to appear on the ballot in all fifty states and received more votes for president in a U.S. general election than any other woman before her. Fulani was born on April 25, 1950 in Chester, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Hofstra University in 1971, earned a master's degree from Columbia University's Teachers College, and earned a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the City University of […]
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard


Tulsi Gabbard served as the representative for Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District from 2013-2021, the first American Samoan Congresswoman and first practicing Hindu member of Congress. In February 2019, she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, the first female combat veteran to run for U.S. president. She suspended her presidential campaign on March 19, 2020. Gabbard was born on April 12, 1981, in Leloaloa, American Samoa. She received a B.S.B.A. in business administration from Hawaii Pacific University in 2009. Her father, Mike Gabbard, has […]