Learn Female Firsts in U.S. Politics

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• First woman to run for the U.S. House of Representatives — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Ran for president of the United States on the Equal Rights Party ticket — Victoria Woodhull
• Ran for president on the Equal Rights Party ticket — Belva Lockwood
• First woman mayor in the U.S. (Argonia, Kansas) — Susanna Salter
• First woman elected to statewide executive office in any state — Laura Eisenhuth (D-ND)
• First woman state senator in the U.S. (Utah) — Martha Hughes Cannon (D)
• First woman ever elected to Congress — Jeannette Rankin (R-MT)
• Gave women the right to vote in the U.S. — 19th Amendment
• First woman appointed to the U.S. Senate — Rebecca Latimer Felton (D-GA)
• First woman elected to the highest court of any state (Supreme Court of Ohio) — Florence Ellinwood Allen
• First woman to lead a major American city (acting mayor of Seattle, later elected) — Bertha K. Landes
• Only all-woman state supreme court in history (Hortense Sparks Ward, Ruth Virginia Brazzil, Hattie Lee Hennenberg) — Texas Supreme Court
• First woman governor in the U.S. — Nellie Tayloe Ross (D-WY)
• First Black woman in a state legislature (West Virginia) — Minnie Buckingham Harper (R)
• First woman elected to the U.S. Senate — Hattie Wyatt Caraway (D-AR)
• First woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet (Secretary of Labor) — Frances Perkins
• First woman to hold a major diplomatic post (minister to Denmark) — Ruth Bryan Owen
• First woman to hold the position of speaker of the House in a state legislature — Minnie Davenport Craig (R-ND)
• First Black woman elected to a state legislature — Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset (D-PA)
• First woman elected to the Senate without having first been appointed; first woman to serve in both houses of Congress — Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)
• First Asian Pacific Islander woman elected to a state legislature (Hawaii Senate) — Patsy Takemoto Mink (D-HI)
• First woman in the U.S. to serve as chief justice of a state supreme court — Justice Lorna Lockwood (AZ)
• First woman nominated for the presidency by a major party (Republican national convention) — Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)
• First woman of color and first woman of Asian-Pacific Islander descent in the U.S. House — Patsy Takemoto Mink (D-HI)
• First Black woman to serve as a federal judge — Constance Baker Motley
• First Black woman to serve in Congress — Shirley Chisholm (D-NY)
• First Black woman to be elected mayor by popular vote of a U.S. municipality (Urbancrest, Ohio) — Ellen Walker Craig-Jones
• Ran for president in the Democratic primaries — Shirley Chisholm (D-NY)
• First woman to chair the Democratic National Committee — Jean Westwood
• First woman to give birth while serving in Congress — Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (D-CA)
• First Black woman mayor of a metropolitan city (Compton, CA) — Doris A. Davis
• First openly lesbian or gay candidate elected to a state legislature — Elaine Noble (D-MA)
• First openly gay or lesbian candidate to run successfully for public office in the U.S. (Ann Arbor, MI city council) — Kathy Kozachenko
• First Asian Pacific Islander to hold a statewide elected executive office (California Secretary of State) — March Fong Eu (D-CA)
• First Arab American woman elected to Congress — Mary Rose Oakar (D-OH)
• First woman to preside over a major party convention (1976 Democratic National Convention) — Congresswoman Lindy Boggs (D-LA)
• First Black woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet — Patricia Roberts Harris
• First woman elected to the Senate without having previously filled an unexpired term — Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-KS)
• First Black woman to hold a statewide elected executive office — Velvalea “Vel” Phillips (D-WI)
• First Native American woman nominee for vice president in the U.S. — LaDonna Harris
• First Asian American woman mayor of a major American city (Long Beach, CA) — Eunice Sato
• First woman on the U.S. Supreme Court — Sandra Day O’Connor
• First woman to hold the position of president of a state senate — Vesta Roy (R-NH)
• First woman elected as a state’s attorney general — Arlene Violet (R-RI)
• First woman to run on a major party’s national ticket (Vice Presidential nominee) — Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-NY)
• First woman to serve as chief of the Cherokee Nation — Wilma Mankiller
• First woman to serve three terms as governor — Madeleine Kunin (D-VT)
• First Black woman elected mayor of one of the 100 largest U.S. cities (Little Rock, AR) — Lottie Shackleford
• First Republican woman elected governor; first woman to defeat another woman in a gubernatorial race — Kay Orr (R-NE)
• Ran for U.S. President (1988, 1992); qualified for federal matching funds (New Alliance Party) — Lenora Fulani

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