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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 […]
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 […]
Jacklyn "Jacky" Rosen
Jacklyn "Jacky" Rosen


Jacklyn "Jacky" Rosen assumed office in the U.S. Senate on Jan. 3, 2019. Previously, Rosen served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Nevada's 3rd congressional district from 2017 to 2019. Rosen was born on August 2, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in psychology in 1979. She also received an associate’s degree in computing and information technology in 1985 from Clark County Community College (now the College of Southern Nevada). Before beginning her political career, Rosen worked as a computer programmer […]
Deborah Ross
Deborah Ross


Deborah Ross assumed office as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2021. She previously served in the North Carolina General Assembly from 2003-2013. Ross was born June 20, 1963. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in 1985 and law degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990. She is an attorney, business ethics consultant and senior lecturing fellow. She managed the ACLU of North Carolina for more than seven years. During her tenure in the North Carolina […]
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Lucille Roybal-Allard


Lucille Roybal-Allard served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993-2023. Roybal-Allard was the first Mexican American woman elected to Congress. She represented California's 33rd district from 1993-2003, the 34th district from 2003-2013, and the 40th district from 2013-2023. Roybal-Allard was born in Boyle Heights, California, on June 12, 1941. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from California State University in Los Angeles, California, in 1965. She served in the California State Assembly from 1987-1992. Prior to serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, Roybal-Allard was a public […]
Maria Elvira Salazar
Maria Elvira Salazar


Maria Elvira Salazar assumed office as the U.S. representative for Florida's 27th Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2021. Salazar was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She received a Bachelor of Arts in communications from the University of Miami and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Salazar has been a news anchor for MEGA TV, Telemundo and CNN español, host of the television show Maria Elvira Live, a senior political correspondent for Telemundo, the Central American bureau chief for Univision, and a […]