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Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten E Gillibrand


Kirsten Gillibrand assumed office as a United States senator from New York in January 2009, after being appointed to fill the seat vacated by Senator Hillary Clinton when she became U.S. secretary of state for the Obama Administration. Gillibrand won a special election in 2010, and full terms since. In March 2019, she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, but withdrew from the race in August 2019. Gillibrand was born December 9, 1966, near Albany, NY. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a […]
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley


Nimrata "Nikki" Randhawa Haley served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 to December 2018. Previously, Haley served as governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, the first non-European American and first female governor of South Carolina and the second Indian American governor to be elected in the United States. Haley was a Republican presidential candidate in the 2024 election, the first woman of color to be a major GOP presidential candidate and the first woman to win a state GOP presidential primary (D.C. and […]
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris


Kamala D. Harris assumed office as vice president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2021, the first woman to serve in that office. She previously served as a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021. Harris was the first Indian American to serve as a U.S. senator and only the second Black female in the U.S. Senate. In January 2019, she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States but withdrew from the race in December 2019. In August 2020, she was chosen […]
Sonia Johnson
Sonia Johnson


Sonia Johnson is a feminist activist and writer, and was a candidate for president of the United States for the Citizens Party in 1984. Johnson was born February 27, 1936, in Malad City, Idaho, a fifth-generation Mormon. She graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1958. After her 1959 marriage, she and her husband moved to Apia, Western Samoa where they taught English for a year. After returning to the United States, Johnson received her master's and Ed.D. degrees from Rutgers University.Between 1960 and […]
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar


Amy Klobuchar assumed office as Minnesota's first female United States senator in January 2007. In February 2019, she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. She suspended her campaign on March 2, 2020. Klobuchar was born May 25, 1960, in Plymouth, Minnesota. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1982 and completed her Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985. In 1998, after serving as a partner at two of Minnesota's leading law firms, Klobuchar was elected as […]
Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke


Winona LaDuke is a Native American activist, environmentalist, economist, politician and writer. She was executive director of Honor the Earth, an organization she co-founded in 1993, from 1993-2023, and was the founder and executive director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project until 2014. In 1996 and 2000, she ran for vice president of the United States as the nominee of the Green Party with Ralph Nader. LaDuke was born on August 18, 1959, in Los Angeles, California. Her father, an activist and actor, was an Ojibwe from White Earth […]
Belva Lockwood
Belva Lockwood


Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood was an American attorney, politician, educator, suffragist and author. One of the first female lawyers in the United States, Lockwood successfully petitioned Congress in 1879 to be allowed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the first woman attorney with this privilege. She ran for president in 1884 and 1888 as the nominee for the Equal Rights Party and was the first woman to appear on official ballots. Lockwood was born October 24, 1830, in Royalton, New York. In 1848, she married Uriah McNall, their […]
Ellen McCormack
Ellen C McCormack


Eleanor "Ellen" Cullen McCormack was a pro-life candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1976 and as a third-party candidate in 1980. She was the first woman to qualify for federal campaign matching funds and for Secret Service protection. Overturning the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision with a constitutional amendment to ban abortion was the main focus of both of her campaigns. In 1976, McCormack ran for president on an exclusively pro-life platform. She appeared on the primary ballot in 18 states. She won no primaries, […]
Patsy Mink
Patsy Mink


Patsy Mink served as a United States representative for Hawaii from 1965 to 1977, and then again from 1989 to 2003. Mink was the first woman of color to serve in Congress. In 1972, she ran as an anti-war candidate in the 1972 Oregon Democratic presidential primary. Mink was born on December 6, 1927, in Pai, Hawaii Territory. She received a with a Bachelor of Arts in zoology and chemistry from the University of Hawaii in 1948 and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago Law School in 1951. […]
Theodora "Tonie" Nathan
Theodora "Tonie" Nathan


Theodora Nathalia "Tonie" Nathan was the first woman and the first Jewish person to have received an electoral vote in a United States presidential election, as the 1972 vice presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party. Nathan was born February 9, 1923, in New York City. She owned an insurance agency, a music publishing firm and a decorating service in California before moving to Oregon. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1971, then worked as a radio and television producer. Nathan was a founding […]