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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 Perry 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 […]
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 […]
Harriet Hageman
Harriet Hageman


Harriet Hageman assumed office in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Wyoming's at-large congressional district on Jan. 3, 2023. Hageman was born and raised on a ranch near Fort Laramie, Wyoming. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Wyoming in 1986 and her law degree from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1989. Her first job was as a law clerk for federal appeals judge James Barrett. She then began practicing law in the private sector throughout Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado. In 2004, she co-founded the […]
Janice Hahn
Janice Hahn


Janice Hahn was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 8, 2016. Prior to serving on the board, she represented California's 36th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from July 2011 to 2012 and District 44 from 2012 to 2017. Hahn was born May 30, 1952. In 1974, she graduated from Abilene Christian University in Texas with a bachelor of science degree in education. Following graduation, Hahn taught at Good News Academy, a private school in Westchester, from 1974 to 1978. Prior to […]
Debbie Halvorson
Debbie Halvorson


Deborah "Debbie" Halvorson represented Illinois' 11th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 2009 until 2011. Halvorson was born March 1, 1958, in Chicago Heights, Illinois. She served in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2009, and in 2005 was elected as the first female majority leader of the Illinois State Senate. While serving in the state Senate, Halvorson completed her Bachelor of Arts and her master's in communication, with degrees from Robert Morris College, Prairie State College, and Governors State University. For information on Halvorson's […]
Colleen Hanabusa
Colleen Hanabusa


Colleen Hanabusa represented Hawaii's 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2019. She had not run for re-election in 2014, instead choosing to run for the U.S. Senate but losing that race in a close primary. In November 2016, she won a special election to fill the remaining term of the late Rep. Mark Takai, who had won her old seat in the 1st District but passed away in July 2016, and also won the general election for that seat. […]
Karen Handel
Karen Handel


Karen Handel represented Georgia's 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 - 2019 and was the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress from Georgia. Handel won a special election on June 20, 2017, to replace Tom Price, who was confirmed as United States secretary of health and human services for the Trump administration in February 2017. She lost her 2018 re-election bid. Handel was born April 18, 1962, in Washington, DC, and grew up in Maryland. She attended both Prince George's Community […]