Category: U.S. Senator

Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte


Kelly Ayotte served as New Hampshire's United States senator from 2011 to 2017. Ayotte was born June 27, 1968, in Nashua, New Hampshire. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in political science. In 1993, she graduated from Villanova University School of Law with a Juris Doctor. From 199301994, Ayotte served as a law clerk in the New Hampshire supreme court, then worked in private practice until 1998 when she became a prosecutor in the New Hampshire attorney general’s office, later becoming head of the […]
Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Nancy Kassebaum Baker


Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker represented Kansas in the U.S. Senate from 1978 to 1997. She was the first woman to represent Kansas in the U.S. Senate and the first woman to chair a major U.S. Senate committee (Labor and Human Resources). Baker was born in Topeka, Kansas, on July 29, 1932. Her father was Alf Landon, governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican nominee for president. She graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence with a B.A. in political science in 1954 and received a […]
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy S Baldwin


Tammy Baldwin was elected to the United States Senate for Wisconsin in November 2012. She is the first woman to represent Wisconsin in Congress and the first openly gay U.S. senator. Baldwin was born February 11, 1962, and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. She completed her bachelor’s degree in political science and mathematics from Smith College in 1984 and received her law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1989. After earning her law degree, Baldwin practiced law for several years. In 1986, while still in law school, […]
Barbara Boxer
Barbara L Boxer


Barbara Boxer served as a U.S. senator from California from 1993 to 2017. Boxer was born November 11, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York. She received a bachelor's degree in economics from Brooklyn College in 1962. She first worked in politics in 1968 as a volunteer for the Eugene McCarthy presidential campaign. In 1970 she helped found an antiwar organization, the Marin Alternative, to protest the war in Vietnam. She worked as a journalist for Pacific Sun from 1972 to 1974, and from 1974 to 1976, she was as an aide […]
Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Moseley Braun


Carol Moseley Braun was a U.S. senator from Illinois from 1993 to 1999. She was the first African American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate (and the only one until Kamala Harris was elected to the Senate from California in 2016), and was the first female senator from Illinois. Moseley Braun was born on August 16, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in political science in 1969 and obtained her juris doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1972. […]
Maria Cantwell
Maria Cantwell


Maria Cantwell assumed office as a United States senator for the state of Washington in January 2001. Cantwell was born October 13, 1958, in Indianapolis, Indiana. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in public administration from Miami University of Ohio in 1980. After working for two political campaigns following graduation, Cantwell, worked in public relations. Cantwell served as a Washington State representative from 1987-1993. In 1993, she was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Washington's 1st Congressional District, serving only one term before losing the next election. […]
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito


Shelley Moore Capito assumed office as U.S. senator from West Virginia in 2015. Capito is West Virginia's first female senator. Capito was born November 26, 1953, in Glen Dale, West Virginia. She completed a Bachelor of Science in zoology from Duke University in 1975. In 1976, she completed her Master of Education from the University of Virginia. After graduation, Capito worked as a college counselor and advisor at West Virginia State College (now University). From 1997 to 2001, Capito served in the West Virginia State House of Delegates. Capito then […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton


Hillary Rodham Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president of the United States, the first women to be nominated for U.S. president on a major party ticket. She served as United States secretary of state from January 2009 to February 2013, United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and first lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992. She is the only U.S. first lady to hold elective office and to serve in […]
Susan Collins
Susan Collins


Susan Collins assumed office as a United States senator for Maine in January 1997. Collins was born in Caribou, Maine, on December 7, 1952. Both of her parents have served as mayor of Caribou, and her father served in the Maine state Senate. She graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1975. She worked on the staff of U.S. Senator William Cohen from 1975-1987. She served as commissioner of the Maine Department of Professional and Financial Regulation from 1987-1992, as the New England regional director of the U.S. Small Business Administration […]
Catherine Cortez Masto
Catherine Cortez Masto


Catherine Cortez Masto assumed office as a U.S. senator from Nevada in January 2017. She is the first woman to represent Nevada in the U.S. Senate and the first Latina senator in U.S. history. Cortez Masto was born on March 29, 1964, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cortez Masto earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in finance from the University of Nevada in 1986 and a J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1990. Cortez Masto served as attorney general of Nevada from 2007 to 2015, and was […]