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Stacey Plaskett
Stacey Plaskett


Stacey Plaskett is the non-voting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the U.S. Virgin Islands. She assumed office January 3, 2015. Plaskett was born on May 13, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents are both from Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. She graduated with a degree in history and diplomacy from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. While a student at Georgetown, she ran for student government, was active in the anti-apartheid movement and spoke on behalf of universities in the DC […]
Katie Porter
Katie Porter


Katie Porter has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019, representing California's 45th congressional district from 2019-2023 and the 47th district since 2023. On Jan. 10, 2023, Porter announced that she was running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Dianne Feinstein, who was to retire at the end of her term but subsequently passed away before the term ended. Porter came in third in California's top-two open primary system, behind fellow California U.S. representative Adam Schiff (Democrat) and former baseball star Steve Garvey (Republican). Porter was born […]
Ayanna Pressley
Ayanna Pressley


Ayanna Pressley assumed office as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 7th Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2019. Pressley previously served as an at-large member of the Boston City Council from 2010 to 2019. Pressley was the first African American woman elected to the Boston City Council and is the first African American woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Pressley was born February 3, 1974, in Chicago, Illinois. From 1992 to 1994, she attended the College of General Studies at Boston University, but left school to support her mother. She later […]
Aumua Amata Radewagen
Aumua Amata Radewagen


Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen has served as the delegate for the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa since 2015. In the 2016 elections, she received the highest number of votes in American Samoa history for an elective office. Radewagen was born on December 29, 1947, in the village of Pago Pago. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Guam. Radewagen's father, Peter Tali Coleman, was the first popularly elected governor of American Samoa, and Radewagen holds the talking chief title of Aumua in Pago Pago. Radewagen […]
Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin


Jeannette Pickering Rankin was the first woman to hold federal office in the United States, with her 1916 election to the U.S. House of Representatives by the state of Montana. In 1940, she was elected to a second House term. A lifelong pacifist, she was one of 50 House members (and six senators) who opposed the war declaration of 1917, and the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Rankin was born on June 11, 1880, near Missoula, […]
Kathleen Rice
Kathleen Rice


Kathleen Rice served New York's 4th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2015-2023. Rice was born on Feb. 15, 1965, in Manhattan. She graduated from Catholic University of America and attended law school at Touro College. After graduating, she worked as a federal prosecutor in Philadelphia. Prior to serving in Congress, Rice served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Philadelphia, as an assistant district attorney in the Kings County District attorney's office in New York City and as Nassau County district attorney. Rice […]
Laura Richardson
Laura Richardson


Laura Richardson represented California's 37th District in the United States House of Representatives from August 2007 to January 2013. Richardson was born April 14, 1962, in Los Angeles, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984 and her Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, in 1996. From 2000 to 2006, Richardson served as a member on the Long Beach, California City Council. Following her time on city council, Richardson served as a member of […]
Martha Roby
Martha Roby


Martha Roby served as the United States representative for Alabama's 2nd Congressional District from 2011-2021. Roby was born July 26, 1976, in Montgomery, Alabama. She received her bachelor's degree in music from New York University in 1998 and graduated with a Juris Doctorate from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham in 2001. Roby served on Montgomery's City Council in 2003. Prior to being sworn into office as a United States Representative, Roby was selected by Republican leaders as one of four freshman members to serve on the GOP […]
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers


Cathy McMorris Rodgers assumed office January 2005, representing Washington's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives. McMorris Rodgers was born May 22, 1969, in Salem, Oregon. She graduated from Pensacola Christian College in Florida in 1990. In 2002, she received her Executive MBA from the University of Washington. McMorris Rodgers served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1994 to 2003, serving as house minority leader from 2002 to 2003.  She was the first woman to lead the House Caucus and the youngest woman since World War II. […]
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen


Ileana Ros-Lehtinen represented Florida's 18th District and then the 27th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1989-2019. Ros-Lehtinen was born July 15, 1952, in Havana, Cuba. She completed her Associate of Arts from Miami-Dade Community College in 1972 and received her Bachelor of Arts from Florida International University in 1987. Ros-Lehtinen was awarded a Master of Science from Florida International University of Miami in 1987 and a Doctorate of Education from the University of Miami in 2004. Ros-Lehtinen served as a member of the Florida State House […]