He served as a city commissioner for West Miami. This was before he got elected to the Florida House State of Representatives in 2000. (Rubio, 2012)
Senator Kamala Harris from Alabama is a democratic senator for the state of California. Prior to that, she held the role of 32nd Attorney General of California and District Attorney of San Francisco. Before her political career she served as managing attorney of the Career Criminal Unit in San Francisco and later as chief of the community and neighborhood division. Kamala Harris is also the first woman and Jamaican American to become attorney general, as well as third woman of color and 1st biracial woman elected into the senate. 1 This Howard University graduate is used to filling significant roles. She is currently serving on the Committee on Intelligence (Select), Committee on the Budget, Committee on Environment and Public Works, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.2
On February 2, 1992 Maggie Lauterer, a local television news celebrity quit her job and signed up to run for the United States Congress as a democrat. Maggie was asked to run by the Democratic leaders of her district. They thought that her celebrity appeal was their ticket to congress. Maggie was from the 11th congressional district in North Carolina. She was the very first women to run for Congress from her district. Maggie was a moderate on issues like crime, abortion, and the economy. Her district though, had a very conservative attitude. Although, Maggie was a Christian she supported abortion and because of that she lost many voters. Maggie believed in running a clean campaign. She was running against Charles Taylor, who was a seasoned
Barbara Jordan was a keynote speaker for the Democratic National Convention in 1976. She mentioned that about 144 years ago that the members of the Democratic Party first met in convention to select a presidential candidate; since then, the democrats have continued to meet once every four years and nominate a presidential candidate. The convention is a continuation of that tradition; but, there is one thing that is something different that night – Barbara Jordan was the keynote speaker. In 1832, no one would have asked Barbara Jordan to deliver the speech, especially if it was a woman. She didn’t want to spend during her speech – having the time to praise the accomplishments of the Democratic and attacking the Republicans – and she didn’t
the 41 mayor of San Francisco,he was the first African American to do so. Also under the California term-limits law
One year later Baldwin won legislative approval to practice the profession he wanted to practice. Eventually his father died, so he took the responsibility to pay off his father's debt and continue educating his half brothers and half sisters. He also helped resolve the large-small state representation crisis. With many years of hard work and determination he was elected as representative to the U.S. Congress in 1788. The Georgia legislature elected him as U.S. Senator in
In 1965 Ford ran for the state senate edging out a win by only 305 votes. In this, his only state senate term, he introduced twenty-two pieces of legislation that were ratified and became laws. Two years later Ford became Lt. Governor and in 1971 went on to serve as Kentucky’s 49th governor (Cross).
actually elected as an alternate congressman on a Liberal Party slate in his home department of
DeLauro ran for the open seat and defeated Republican State Senator Thomas Scott 52% to 48%. She has never faced another election so close, and has been reelected twelve times, never going below 63% of the vote. This past election in 2016, DeLauro was up against Republican candidate Angel Cadena, but DeLauro was re-elected with 69% of the vote.
Capito has been one target of state and national campaigns urging her to vote against new legislation.
The Republican incumbent Senator Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania was placed in a difficult position throughout his Senatorial campaign. With an unstable, hectic presidential campaign in progress, the citizens of Pennsylvania were curious as to whether the two senatorial candidates were in support or opposed to their party’s respective presidential candidates. While Katie McGinty, the democratic candidate for the Pennsylvania Senate, clearly endorsed Hillary Clinton, Toomey refrained from expressing clear support for Donald Trump. Although McGinty attacked Toomey’s lack of decisiveness and called him weak, Toomey took this stance strategically. Toomey resulted in winning the Pennsylvania Senatorial election through his status as an incumbent, and his strategic decision to refrain from fully endorsing Donald Trump.
DeLauro ran for the open seat and defeated Republican State Senator Thomas Scott 52% to 48%. She has never faced another election so close, and has been reelected twelve times, never going below 63% of the vote. This past election in 2016, DeLauro was up against Republican candidate Angel Cadena, but DeLauro was re-elected with 69% of the vote.
Claire McCaskill, the first women Senator for the State of Missouri was elected in 2006. Senator McCaskill politically identifies with the Democrat Party (“About Claire,” n.d.).
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first New York Senator to ever serve on the Senate Armed Forces Committee. She has visited troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as military bases in the United States. She worked to pass legislation to track the health status of United States troops in order to avoid instances such as Gulf War syndrome to go undetected.
A significant portion of her career was dedicated to helping with the republican campaign for the Presidential election of the United States. Her role in the victory of the Presidential election was definitive and she gained much notoriety for it. Once the election was