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Madison Gesiotto Gilbert
Madison Gesiotto Gilbert


Madison Gesiotto Gilbert ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Ohio’s 13th congressional district in 2022, losing in the general election. Gesiotto Gilbert was born on March 20, 1992. She was raised in Stark County, Ohio. She attended The Ohio State University, where she earned a degree in political science in 2014. She would then attend law school at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and earn a Juris Doctor degree in 2017. While in law school, she served as a staff editor on the Ohio […]
Kirsten E 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 […]
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez


Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has represented Washington’s 3rd District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2023. Gluesenkamp Perez was born on June 4, 1988, in Harris County, Texas. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Reed College in 2012. Before entering the political realm, Gluesenkamp Perez ran an automotive repair shop with her husband. For information on Gluesenkamp Perez’s policy subject areas, committee appointments and sponsored/co-sponsored legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, please visit her profile on https://www.congress.gov. Sources: Ballotpedia. (n.d.). Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. https://ballotpedia.org/Marie_Gluesenkamp_Perez.
Jenniffer González-Colón
Jenniffer González-Colón


Jenniffer González-Colón has served as the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico, representing the island in the U.S. House of Representatives, since 2017. She is the youngest person and the first woman to be resident commissioner. González-Colón was born in San Juan on August 5, 1976. She received her bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Puerto Rico, and her J.D. and L.L.M. from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law. Her career in elective politics started when she won a special election in the Puerto […]
Gwen Graham
Gwen Graham


Gwen Graham served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Florida's 2nd Congressional District from 2015 to 2017. She was a candidate for governor in 2018, but lost in the primary. Graham was born Jan. 31, 1963, in Miami Lakes, Florida. Her father is Bob Graham, a former United States senator and governor of Florida. Graham received her bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984 and her law degree from American University's Washington College of Law in 1988. After law school, Graham worked for […]
Kay Granger
Kay Granger


Kay Granger assumed office in January 1997, representing the 12th District of Texas in the United States House of Representatives. Granger was born January 18, 1943, in Greenville, Texas, but grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. She attended Texas Wesleyan University. In 1989, she was elected to the Fort Worth City Council, and in 1991, she assumed the position of mayor, a position she held until 1995. For information on Granger's policy subject areas, committee appointments and sponsored/co-sponsored legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, please visit her profile on […]
Ella T. Grasso
Ella T. Grasso


Ella T. Grasso served as governor of Connecticut from 1975 to 1980. She was the first woman governor of Connecticut and the first woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state without having been the spouse or widow of a former governor. Grasso was born on May 10, 1919, in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics and sociology in 1940 and master's degree in 1942, both from Mount Holyoke College. During World War II, she served as assistant director of research for the War Manpower […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene


Marjorie Taylor Greene assumed office as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 14th Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2021. Greene was born on May 27, 1974, in Milledgeville, Georgia. She received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Georgia. Greene and her husband are the owners of Taylor Commercial, a construction company based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Greene previously started and sold a CrossFit gym. For information on Greene's policy subject areas, committee appointments and sponsored/co-sponsored legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, please visit her profile on https://www.congress.gov. […]
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Michelle Lujan Grisham


Michelle Lujan Grisham assumed office as governor of New Mexico on Jan. 1, 2019. Previously, Lujan Grisham served as the U.S. representative for New Mexico's 1st District from 2012 to 2019. Lujan Grisham was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, on October 24, 1959, and raised in Santa Fe. She received both a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico. Lujan Grisham served as director of New Mexico's Agency on Aging from 1991-2002. From 2004-2007, she served as New Mexico's secretary of health. In 2010, […]
Debra Haaland
Debra Haaland


Debra Haaland was confirmed as U.S. secretary of the interior on March 15, 2021. Haaland is a member of the Laguna Pueblo people and is the first Native American Cabinet member in U.S. history. Previously, Haaland served as U.S. representative for New Mexico's 1st Congressional District from 2019-2021. Haaland and Sharice Davids were the first Native American women elected to the U.S. Congress. Haaland was born on December 2, 1960, in Winslow, Arizona. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of New Mexico in 1994 and […]