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Will & Grace (season 8)
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Country of origin
United States
No. of episodes
24
Release
Original network
NBC
Original release
September 29, 2005 (2005-09-29) – May 18, 2006 (2006-05-18)
Season chronology
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List of Will & Grace episodes
The eighth season of Will & Grace premiered to a live episode on September 29, 2005 and concluded on May 18, 2006, consisting of 24 episodes. The eighth season was the final season of the series' original run; the ninth season and series revival premiered on September 28, 2017.
Contents
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1 Cast and characters
1.1 Main cast
1.2 Recurring cast
1.3 Special guest stars
1.4 Guest stars
2 Episodes
3 References
Cast and characters[edit]
Main cast[edit]
Eric McCormack as Will Truman
Debra Messing as Grace Adler
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker
Sean Hayes as Jack McFarland
Shelley Morrison as Rosario Salazar
Recurring cast[edit]
Harry Connick, Jr. as Dr. Marvin "Leo" Markus
Bobby Cannavale as Vince D'Angelo
Leslie Jordan as Beverley Leslie
Michael Angarano as Elliot
Leigh-Allyn Baker as Ellen
Tom Gallop as Rob
Tim Bagley as Larry
Jerry Levine as Joe
Special guest stars[edit]
Alec Baldwin as Malcolm Widmark
Andy Richter as Dale
Richard Chamberlain as Clyde
Debbie Reynolds as Bobbi Adler
Blythe Danner as Marilyn Truman
Steven Weber as Sam Truman
Matt Lauer as himself
Lily Tomlin as Margot
Taye Diggs as James Hanson
Daryl Hall as himself
John Oates as himself
Shohreh Aghdashloo as Pam
Britney Spears as Amber-Louise
George Takei as himself
Wanda Sykes as Cricket
Eileen Brennan as Zandra
Sydney Pollack as George Truman
Lesley Ann Warren as Tina
Bernadette Peters as Gin
Josh Lucas as himself
Kevin Bacon as himself
Guest stars[edit]
Jason Biggs as Baby Glenn
Millicent Martin as Leni
Jim Rash as Brent
Traci Lords as Rose
Reed Alexander as Jordan Truman
Jennette McCurdy as Girl in Cinema
Robert Michael Morris as Tommy
Shawn Christian as Travis
Kyle Bornheimer as Waiter
John Ducey as Jamie
Laura Kightlinger as Nurse Sheila
Paris Barclay as Director
Christina Moore as Kitty
Jere Burns as Man in Cast
Maria Thayer as Lila
Episodes[edit]
See also: List of Will & Grace episodes
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171
1 "Alive and Schticking" James Burrows Bill Wrubel September 29, 2005 (2005-09-29) 9.81[1]
Grace tries to tell Tom that she doesn't want to hook up with a married man, but he continues to pursue her. After talking with Jack, Grace decides to throw caution to the wind, but when Jack realizes what he accidentally talked Grace into, he quickly talks her out of it. Jack is missing an eyebrow from a fire at the premiere of his talk show. Will tells Grace about Stan being alive, and the news quickly gets out. Malcolm asks out Karen, and Will is horrified, so to stop the date he tells Karen that Stan is alive. At first, Karen doesn't believe him, but then when Rosario admits that she's been reporting to Stan on Karen for over a year, Karen fires Rosario and goes out with Malcolm anyway, saying that Stan may not be dead, but he's dead to her.
172
2 "I Second That Emotion" James Burrows Gary Janetti October 6, 2005 (2005-10-06) 8.44[2]
Karen kicks out Rosario for not telling her about Stan being alive, and Will makes it his mission to emotionally heal Karen. He gets Karen to let some of her emotions out, but when all her bad memories start coming back to haunt her, she lashes out and scratches some of Will's open wounds to bring him down with her. Will and Karen end up drunk together, and decide together to put back up their emotional walls. Karen, however, decides to hang onto how hurt she's been by Stanley, while Will decides to figure out why he threw away a great boyfriend and a burgeoning career. Grace accidentally appears on Jack's talk show, and due to bad editing, it looks like she says that she hates all gay men. When gays all over New York start yelling at her and throwing things at her, she forces Jack to let her back on the show so that she can set the story straight.
173
3 "The Old Man and the Sea" James Burrows Greg Malins October 13, 2005 (2005-10-13) 8.34[3]
When Jack learns that Will never learned to swim, Jack insists that he teach Will how. However, Will doesn't really trust Jack, so he secretly signs up with a real instructor. When Jack finds out, he's incredibly hurt, and can't believe Will doesn't trust him with this when he trusted him with coming out of the closet. Will realizes Jack is right, and cancels his lesson with the instructor, entrusting his safety back with his friend. Karen sets up Grace on a blind date with one of Malcolm's friends. Grace is put off when she finds out the guy is a piano tuner that lives on a landfill in Staten Island, but when Karen calls Grace a snob, Grace determines to give the guy a chance. She ends up really liking the guy, but when he hears her sing, it turns out he's the snob and he ends their date early.
174
4 "Steams Like Old Times" James Burrows Gail Lerner October 20, 2005 (2005-10-20) 7.88[4]
After Stanley secretly talks to Jack, Jack tells Karen that he thinks she belongs with Stanley, but Karen says that she's happy with Malcolm. Jack goes to tell Stanley the bad news, but is interrupted by Malcolm who want to talk to Stanley himself. Malcolm later tells Karen that Stanley gave them his blessing to be together, and Karen, pissed as hell, confronts Stanley, hurt that he would give her up without a fight. She says that there's nothing he can say to get her back, but all he has to do is say one thing and she goes running back into his arms. Will starts delivering food to the elderly homebound, and brings one older gay man, Clyde, home with him on the same night that Grace tries to celebrate the 10th anniversary of game night. Will forces Grace to play Celebrity with Clyde, who is totally useless, and Grace finally blows up at Will for ruining game night. Will admits that he worries that he's going to end up like Clyde when he's an old lonely gay man, but then Clyde tells everyone he's actually not gay, and he used to be married to a doctor but then she cheated on him so he left her. Everyone realizes that Clyde is actually Grace's future.
175
5 "The Hole Truth" James Burrows Sally Bradford November 3, 2005 (2005-11-03) 7.93[5]
Jack hooks up with another wanna-be celebrity gay man, Baby Glenn, whose 15 minutes involved falling down a hole and being stuck there for 3 days when he was 12 years old. Jack and Baby Glenn both go up for auction at Will's charity auction and carnival, and while Baby Glenn (Jason Biggs) actually gets bought for $1,000, no one bids on Jack. Will tries hard to pretend that Jack sold for $1,500, but Jack knows that it was Will doing the bidding. Will bucks up his old friend though, saying that it was worth every penny, and Jack really will be famous someday. Karen, who is back with Stanley, is still dating Malcolm, because she doesn't want to break his heart. When Grace lets it slip to Malcolm that Karen is back with Stanley, Karen and Malcolm break up, and Grace is left to pick up the pieces of Malcolm, agreeing to be his date to Will's carnival. When Grace can't take the freaky Malcolm anymore, Karen comes to the rescue and gets back together with Malcolm, but just as she's about to dump him again, he gets called for 2-year mission in Sri Lanka and breaks up with her.
176
6 "Love is in the Airplane" James Burrows Tracy Poust & Jon Kinnally November 3, 2005 (2005-11-03) 8.85[6]
While en route to London, Will and Grace spot Grace's ex-husband Leo on their flight. Will charms a pair of gay flight attendants, and ends up working as a flight attendant himself, to smuggle Grace into first class to talk to Leo. Grace and Leo start out awkward, but end up remembering why they fell in love, and they have sex on the plane. Grace is okay with this being closure, but Leo tries to make it something more. Grace is tempted, but once they're back on the ground, she remembers why their marriage didn't work in the first place, and she bids Leo a sad goodbye. Back in New York, Jack tries to reunite Karen and Rosario, but he has to face off with Karen's new British maid who is determined not to lose her new job. Jack gets Rosario and Karen back together, but has to face off against the violent new maid to do it.
177
7 "Birds of a Feather Boa" James Burrows Abraham Higginbotham November 17, 2005 (2005-11-17) 8.89[7]
Jack decides to find a new apartment, and Will becomes oddly obsessed with the plight of two gay penguins at the Central Park Zoo that are going to be separated. Luckily, Jack realizes that Will is confusing the penguins' plight with his own, and decides not to move, donating his apartment money to the zoo so that the penguins don't have to be separated. Karen and Grace attend the funeral of Beverley Leslie's wife, Crystal, and Grace can't resist trying on a custom couture gown that used to belong to the late woman. When trying to help Grace out of the gown, Karen gets her own outfit stuck in Grace's zipper, and so they spend the ceremony stuck together with a blanket covering Grace's dress. Of course, Beverley Leslie busts them, and then gets his own outfit stuck in the zipper of the dress while trying to get Grace out of it.
178
8 "Swish Out of Water" James Burrows Kirk J. Rudell November 24, 2005 (2005-11-24) 5.82[8]
Grace finds it impossible to put up with her mother Bobbi's (Debbie Reynolds) constant nitpicking, so Jack takes it upon himself to help her because, according to him, no one knows how to be a good daughter better than a gay son. Jack subjects her to a barrage of Bobbi-esque insults until Grace finally learns what her mother really means underneath her harsh words. Meanwhile, Will's first case at the Coalition for Justice is about tenants' rights, and the slumlord turns out to be none other than Karen.
179
9 "A Little Christmas Queer" James Burrows Jamie Rhonheimer December 8, 2005 (2005-12-08) 8.79[9]
While spending the holidays at Will's mother Marilyn's (Blythe Danner) house, Grace gets cozy with Will's brother and old flame Sam (Steven Weber). Sam's adopted daughter finds a fan in Karen, who is intrigued by the little girl. Meanwhile, Jack helps Will's nephew organize and perform a Christmas show, which Marilyn is thrilled about. Will is silently fuming, however, as Marilyn is much more tolerant of the young boy than she ever was of her own son.
180
10 "Von Trapped" James Burrows Gail Lerner January 5, 2006 (2006-01-05) 8.0[10]
The "Sound of Music Sing-Along" has come to town and no one is more excited than Grace. She plans to, with Will, attend the musical in character by dressing up in costumes. The night turns into a disaster when she ends up babysitting a group of children and Will accidentally goes to the wrong theater, then is detained further by James (Taye Diggs), a handsome man he meets. Meanwhile, Karen and Jack try to flee when Karen gets in trouble with the theater's manager, who blocks off the exits, trapping everyone inside and forcing them to plot their escape.
181
11 "Bathroom Humor" James Burrows Greg Malins January 12, 2006 (2006-01-12) 9.67[11]
All of New York's high society has been invited to Karen's birthday party – but the affair goes downhill when Will, Grace and Jack embarrass themselves and wind up crammed together in Karen's bathroom with the birthday girl.
182
12 "Forbidden Fruit" James Burrows Janis Hirsch January 19, 2006 (2006-01-19) 7.49[12]
Grace is confused when Will adamantly insists that she turn down a job offer from his former boss Margot (Lily Tomlin), who has asked Grace to redecorate the law firm. When she takes the job after telling Will that she wouldn't, Grace learns some startling news that he has been hiding from her. Meanwhile, Jack discovers Karen's softer side when he finally sees what's inside the "forbidden room" at the Walker mansion.
183
13 "Cop to It" James Burrows Sally Bradford January 26, 2006 (2006-01-26) 6.91[13]
Will and Grace dread a dinner date with married friends Rob and Ellen who they assume will announce Ellen is pregnant yet again – but when the couple reveals that they are separated and loving it, Grace gets depressed. She's quickly distracted however when Will's cop ex-boyfriend, Vince (Bobby Cannavalle), approaches their table as their server. Ignoring Rob and Ellen's big news, Will and Grace discuss how Vince must have gone off the deep end and quit the force after splitting with Will, and Vince's request to switch table assignments seems to confirm their thoughts. Meanwhile, Jack decides he needs to spice up "JackTalk" by helping his fan, Tommy Shields, come out of the closet. Jack and Karen set up a bowling alley meeting with Tommy when Karen is recruited to join a woman's league game as an emergency fill-in.
184
14 "I Love L. Gay" James Burrows Steve Gabriel February 2, 2006 (2006-02-02) 7.27[14]
Jack, Will, Karen, and a star struck Grace travel to Los Angeles to support Elliot as he is visiting colleges. Coincidentally, Will runs into James (Taye Diggs) while in LA, but to his surprise James is Canadian and in jeopardy of being deported. After spending a perfect weekend together, Will and James find that they don't have to say good-bye to each other again when Grace makes a special proposal.
185
15 "The Definition of Marriage" James Burrows Abraham Higginbotham February 9, 2006 (2006-02-09) 7.45[15]
The big day has finally arrived – Grace and James (Taye Diggs) are getting ready for their green card wedding. To Grace's dismay, Karen takes it upon herself to ignore her wish for a low-key wedding ceremony and decides to arrange a huge affair instead including hiring Hall & Oates to perform "Maneater" at the ceremony. However, despite Karen's plans and Grace getting sick before the vows, the wedding goes well, with James singing to Will during the ceremony. The next day, Grace discovers she's pregnant from her earlier encounter with Leo.
186
16 "Grace Expectations" James Burrows Janis Hirsch March 16, 2006 (2006-03-16) 9.09[16]
A nervous but optimistic Grace decides to tell Leo (Harry Connick Jr.) she is pregnant with his child, but when she finally works up enough courage to actually meet with him, she decides not to when she discovers that he's engaged. Meanwhile, Will is settling in comfortably with James (Taye Diggs) until he reveals a side of himself unknown to Will. And as Jack attempts to document every moment of Grace's pregnancy for his talk show, Karen sulks alone, jealous over the good fortunes of her friends.
187
17 "Cowboys and Iranians" James Burrows Robia Rashid March 23, 2006 (2006-03-23) 8.82[17]
An ecstatic Jack coerces Will into going out with him to a gay cowboy bar to meet his new boyfriend Travis (Shawn Christian). Will soon discovers that Travis is not as perfect as he seems and steps up to defend Jack's honor, which eventually leads to a bar fight. In order to show Karen the positives of multiculturalism, she hires an incompetent Iranian assistant (Shohreh Aghdashloo).
188
18 "Buy, Buy Baby" James Burrows Kirk J. Rudell March 30, 2006 (2006-03-30) 9.38[18]
After a large corporation takes over OutTV, Jack's talk show "JackTalk" is completely revamped. An immediate change comes when the new conservative owners hire Amber-Louise (Britney Spears) as "JackTalk"'s new co-host. While Jack is deciding whether or not he'll stand up to his new bosses, Karen goes baby shopping. After seeing Grace so happy about her pregnancy, Karen decides she wants a baby of her own and offers to pay a make-up lady, Cricket (Wanda Sykes), to carry one for her.
189
19 "Blanket Apology" James Burrows James Lecesne April 6, 2006 (2006-04-06) 8.21[19]
After losing his job as the host of "JackTalk," Jack vows never to return to acting. An unrelenting Karen, however, will not let Jack give up on his passion and decides to do whatever it takes to get Jack to an audition. Meanwhile, Grace accompanies Will to dinner at his parents' home, but a simple dinner soon turns into a showdown between Will and his father when his dad decides to give Grace's unborn child Will's cherished baby blanket.
190
20 "The Mourning Son" James Burrows Jamie Rhonheimer April 27, 2006 (2006-04-27) 7.58[20]
Friends and family gather for the funeral of Will's father. During the reception everyone shares with Will fond last memories of his father, while Will's last memory of his father is not as pleasant. As he tries to come to terms with their last fight, Marilyn (Blythe Danner) helps him realize the changes he must make in his life. Will's ex-boyfriend Vince (Bobby Cannavale) also attends the funeral service. Meanwhile, Grace attempts to comfort the grieving younger members of the family and begins to doubt her ability to be a good mother.
191
21 "Partners 'n' Crime" James Burrows Josh Silberman & Zack Slovinsky May 4, 2006 (2006-05-04) 7.00[21]
Will and Grace begin attending childbirth classes in preparation for the baby, but as Will and Vince (Bobby Cannavale) take another chance at their relationship together, Grace starts to doubt whether Will is up for raising a child with her. Meanwhile, Karen looks to Jack for comfort as her marriage with Stan hits a bumpy road but finds that Jack is a little preoccupied with his new television show.
192
22 "Whatever Happened to Baby Gin?" James Burrows Gary Janetti & Tracy Poust & Jon Kinnally May 11, 2006 (2006-05-11) 9.36[22]
Just as Will and Grace are settling into the idea of raising the baby together, Will's boyfriend Vince (Bobby Cannavale) surprises him with an announcement that will ultimately lead Will to choose between his commitment to Grace and his relationship with Vince. Meanwhile, Karen shocks everyone when she announces that she has a sister, Gin (Bernadette Peters), who was injured as a child during a game of Twister. Jack, on the other hand, is comforted by a man (Josh Lucas) after a devastating discovery when his new show "The Badge" premieres.
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24 "The Finale" James Burrows David Kohan & Max Mutchnick May 18, 2006 (2006-05-18)[23] 18.43[24]
In the first part of the series finale, Grace and Leo have a baby girl, and Will and Vince have a baby boy. Grace has a weird dream about the gang's future. Karen's arch-enemy Beverly Leslie makes an offer to Jack that changes his life.
In the second part of the series finale, Will and Grace have a falling out that lasts for years. They eventually meet up when their children meet in college (who eventually get married) and make up.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived February 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet October 4, 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived August 15, 2010, at WebCite. ABC Medianet October 11, 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived August 15, 2010, at WebCite. ABC Medianet October 11, 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived August 15, 2010, at WebCite. ABC Medianet October 25, 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived September 4, 2012, at WebCite. ABC Medianet November 8, 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived March 11, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet November 15, 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived March 11, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet November 22, 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived March 11, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet November 29, 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived December 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet December 13, 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Episode List: Will & Grace – TV Tango Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived May 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet January 18, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived May 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet January 24, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived July 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet January 31, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived August 15, 2010, at WebCite. ABC Medianet February 7, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived March 11, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet February 14, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived September 4, 2012, at WebCite. ABC Medianet March 21, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived April 5, 2013, at WebCite. ABC Medianet March 28, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived May 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet April 4, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived February 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet April 11, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived August 15, 2010, at WebCite. ABC Medianet May 2, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived July 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet May 9, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived May 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet May 16, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ These episodes originally aired as a single double-length episode but are sometimes split into two episodes for syndication, reruns and DVD presentation.
Jump up ^ Weekly Program Rankings Archived February 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.. ABC Medianet May 23, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
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Women in the United States Senate
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Rebecca Latimer Felton, the first female member of the United States Senate, who served representing Georgia for one day in 1922.
There have been 52 total women in the United States Senate since its establishment in 1789.[1] The first woman who served as a U.S. Senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton, represented Georgia for a single day in 1922. The first woman elected to the Senate was Hattie Caraway from Arkansas in 1932. Fifteen of the women who have served were appointed; seven of those were appointed to succeed their deceased husbands. As of April 9, 2018 when Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi was sworn in, the 115th United States Congress has 23 female Senators out of 100 (23%), three more than both the 113th and 114th Congresses, and an all-time high.
Contents
1 History
2 Currently serving women U.S. Senators
3 Election, selection and family
4 Firsts and onlies
4.1 Houses served
4.2 Defeated incumbents
4.3 Senators from the same state
5 List of states represented by women
6 List of female U.S. Senators
7 Graphs
7.1 Histograph
7.2 Time series
8 Pregnancies
9 See also
10 Notes
11 References
12 External links
History[edit]
One woman (Barbara Mikulski) was re-elected and four women were elected to the Senate in 1992, the "Year of the Woman". Top Row (L-R): Patty Murray, Barbara Mikulski, Barbara Boxer. Bottom Row: Carol Moseley-Braun, Diane Feinstein.
Eight women Senators meet in 1997. Left to right: Patty Murray, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Carol Moseley-Braun, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Barbara Mikulski, Mary Landrieu, and Dianne Feinstein.
By the 111th United States Congress (2009–2011), the number of women Senators had increased to 17, including 4 Republicans and 13 Democrats
For its first 130 years in existence, the Senate's membership was entirely male. Until 1920, few women ran for the Senate. Until the 1990s, very few were elected. This paucity of women was due to many factors, including the lack of women's suffrage in many states until ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, women's limited access to higher education until the mid-1900s, public perceptions of gender roles, and barriers to women's advancement such as sex discrimination, which still plays a factor in their limited numbers today.
The first woman in the U.S. Senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton, who served representing Georgia for only one day in 1922. Hattie Caraway became the first woman to win election to the Senate (Arkansas), in 1932. Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate; she first served in the House, and began serving in the Senate in 1949. Margaret Chase Smith won her 1960 race for Senate in the nation's first ever race pitting two women (her and Lucia Cormier) against each other for a Senate seat. Muriel Humphrey Brown was the first and only Second Lady to serve in the United States Senate. After her husband, Hubert Humphrey, was defeated in the 1968 presidential election, he ran for his old Senate seat from Minnesota. Following his unexpected death, Brown was appointed by the Governor of Minnesota in 1978 to fill her late husband’s Senate seat. She served for less than one year, and did not seek reelection.
In 1978, Nancy Kassebaum became the first woman ever elected to a full term in the Senate without her husband having previously served in Congress.[2] Since 1978, there has always been at least one woman in the Senate. The first woman to be elected to the Senate without any family connections was Paula Hawkins (R-FL), elected in 1980. There were still few women in the Senate near the end of the 20th century, long after women began to make up a significant portion of the membership of the House. The trend of few women in the Senate began to change in the wake of the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearings, and the subsequent election of the 103rd United States Congress in 1992, which was dubbed the "Year of the Woman."[3] In addition to Barbara Mikulski, who was reelected that year (1992), four women were elected to the Senate, all Democrats. They were Patty Murray of Washington, Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, and Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both of California. Carol Moseley Braun, who was African-American, was the first woman of color in the Senate. She was also the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator, having toppled Senator Alan Dixon in the Democratic primary in 1992. Later that year, Dianne Feinstein was the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator from a different party when she defeated appointed Senator John Seymour in a special election. Feinstein entered the Senate in 1992 as the first female Jewish senator.[4][5][6]
Bathroom facilities for women in the Senate on the Senate Chamber level were first provided in 1992.[7] Women were not allowed to wear pants on the Senate floor until 1993.[8][9] In 1993, Senators Barbara Mikulski and Carol Moseley Braun wore pants onto the floor in defiance of the rule, and female support staff followed soon after, with the rule being amended later that year by Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Martha Pope to allow women to wear pants on the floor so long as they also wore a jacket.[8][9]
The first time two female senators from the same state served concurrently was beginning in 1993; Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer (both D-CA) were both elected in 1992, with Feinstein taking office that same year (as the result of a special election) and Boxer taking office in 1993 until 2016 when Boxer retired and Feinstein was joined by Kamala Harris. In June 1993, Kay Bailey Hutchison won a special election in Texas, and joined Kassebaum as a fellow female Republican senator. These additions significantly diminished the popular perception of the Senate as an exclusive "boys' club." Since 1992, there has been at least one woman elected to the Senate every two years with one exception, the 2004 elections. Since 2004, at least two women have been elected to the Senate every two years, with the exception of 2010, when only one woman was elected.
Senator Olympia Snowe arrived in the Senate in 1995, having previously served in the House of Representatives and both houses of the Maine state legislature. She and later Debbie Stabenow of Michigan are the only women to have served in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of the federal legislature. In 2000, Stabenow and Maria Cantwell became the first women to defeat incumbent elected senators in a general election, unseating Senators Spencer Abraham and Slade Gorton respectively. Hillary Clinton was the first and only First Lady to run for and/or to win a Senate seat; she joined the Senate in 2001. She is also the only female U.S. Senator (and only woman) to be the nominee of a major party for President of the United States, which occurred in 2016.
In 2008, Kay Hagan became the first woman to unseat a female incumbent, Elizabeth Dole. Upon the opening of the 112th Congress in 2011, New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen was joined by newly elected Republican Kelly Ayotte, making the first female tandem senators that do not belong to the same party. Barbara Mikulski became the longest-serving woman senator (and Congresswoman) in 2012; she retired in 2017 as still the longest-serving after serving for forty years.
In 2012, there was a second "Year of the Woman" with the election of five women and the reelection of six women. This beat the record of four new female Senators from 1992 and set the record of five new women and eleven female Senators in one Senate class. The five new women were Democrat Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Republican Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Democrat Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Democrat Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, and Democrat Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. The driving force behind the addition of four of the Senators elected was one of the original senators from 1992, Patty Murray, who led the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which recruited Baldwin, Heitkamp, Hirono, and Warren, along with several other candidates who did not win. Hirono was the first Asian-American woman and first Buddhist person in the Senate, and Baldwin was the first openly gay person in the Senate. With 14 years of experience in the House of Representatives, Baldwin held the highest seniority of her entering class of senators in 2012.
Joni Ernst became the first female combat veteran to serve in the Senate when she joined in 2015. In 2016, a record 15 women were their party's nominee for Senate, 12 of whom were truly competitive. Louisiana also had a female senatorial candidate, but she did not make the run-off. Catherine Cortez Masto was among those elected in 2016; she was the first Latina Senator.[10] In 2016, Kamala Harris was the first woman to defeat another woman from the same party, U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, in a general election. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire hold the distinction of being the first and second women elected both governor and senator of a state; both served as Governor of New Hampshire and served together in the Senate starting in 2017.
In 2017 Tammy Duckworth became the first female double amputee in the U.S. Senate. Duckworth became the first woman to give birth while holding a seat in the United States Senate in 2018. Duckworth gave birth to Maile Pearl on April 9, 2018.[11] Shortly afterward, rules were changed so that a Senator has the right to bring a child under one year old on the Senate floor and breastfeed them during votes.[12] The day after those rules were changed, Maile became the first baby on the Senate floor when Duckworth brought her.[12][13] Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) joined the Senate in April 2018.
Cumulatively, 34 female U.S. Senators have been Democrats, while 18 have been Republicans. As of 2018, no female U.S. Senator has ever died in office.
Currently serving women U.S. Senators[edit]
In January 2017, the number of serving women Senators reached a record of 21, 16 of whom were Democrats, and the other 5 being Republicans. Democratic Senators Barbara Mikulski and Barbara Boxer did not seek reelection in 2016, while four new Democratic senators were elected: Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada), Tammy Duckworth (Illinois), Kamala Harris (California), and Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire). Incumbent Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte (New Hampshire) lost to Hassan. Both of the seats that changed hands from Republican to Democrat were won by women: Duckworth and Hassan.
In January 2018, after the appointment of Democrat Tina Smith of Minnesota to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Al Franken, and in April 2018 after the appointment of Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Thad Cochran, the number of female Senators increased to 23, with 17 being Democrats and 6 being Republicans.
For four states, California, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Washington, both senators are women. Seven female senators had previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives – a distinction long held by only Margaret Chase Smith – Sens. Stabenow, Cantwell, Gillibrand, Baldwin, Hirono, Capito, and Duckworth.
Class
State
Name
Party
Prior experience
First took
office
Born
3 Alaska Lisa Murkowski Republican Alaska House of Representatives 2002 1957
1 California Dianne Feinstein Democratic President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor of San Francisco, gubernatorial nominee 1992 1933
3 California Kamala Harris Democratic Attorney General of California, District Attorney of San Francisco 2017 1964
1 Hawaii Mazie Hirono Democratic Hawaii House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, gubernatorial nominee, U.S. House of Representatives 2013 1947
3 Illinois Tammy Duckworth Democratic U.S. House of Representatives 2017 1968
2 Iowa Joni Ernst Republican Montgomery County Auditor; Iowa Senate 2015 1970
2 Maine Susan Collins Republican Deputy Maine Treasurer; gubernatorial nominee 1997 1952
1 Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren Democratic Special Advisor to the President for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 2013 1949
1 Michigan Debbie Stabenow Democratic Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan Senate, U.S. House of Representatives 2001 1950
1 Minnesota Amy Klobuchar Democratic-Farmer-Labor Hennepin County Attorney 2007 1960
2 Minnesota Tina Smith Democratic-Farmer-Labor Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota 2018 1958
2 Mississippi Cindy Hyde-Smith Republican Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce 2018 1959
1 Missouri Claire McCaskill Democratic Missouri House of Representatives, State Auditor of Missouri, gubernatorial nominee 2007 1953
1 Nebraska Deb Fischer Republican Nebraska Legislature 2013 1951
3 Nevada Catherine Cortez Masto Democratic Nevada Attorney General 2017 1964
2 New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen Democratic New Hampshire Senate, Governor of New Hampshire 2009 1947
3 New Hampshire Maggie Hassan Democratic New Hampshire Senate, Governor of New Hampshire 2017 1958
1 New York Kirsten Gillibrand Democratic U.S. House of Representatives 2009 1966
1 North Dakota Heidi Heitkamp Democratic-NPL North Dakota Attorney General, North Dakota Tax Commissioner, gubernatorial nominee 2013 1955
3 Washington Patty Murray Democratic Washington Senate 1993 1950
1 Washington Maria Cantwell Democratic Washington House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives 2001 1958
2 West Virginia Shelley Moore Capito Republican West Virginia House of Delegates, U.S. House of Representatives 2015 1953
1 Wisconsin Tammy Baldwin Democratic Wisconsin State Assembly, U.S. House of Representatives 2013 1962
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Before 2001, numerically speaking, the most common way for a woman to ascend to the U.S. Senate was to have been appointed there following the death or resignation of a husband or father who previously held the seat. An example is Muriel Humphrey (D-MN), the widow of former senator and Vice President Hubert Humphrey; she was appointed to fill his seat until a special election was held (in which she did not run). However, with the election of three women in 2000, the balance shifted: More women have now entered service as a senator by winning their seats outright than by being appointed to the body.[citation needed]
Recent examples of selection include Jean Carnahan and Lisa Murkowski. In 2000, Jean Carnahan (D-MO) was appointed to fill the Senate seat won by her recently deceased husband, Mel Carnahan. Carnahan—even though dead—defeated the incumbent senator, John Ashcroft. Carnahan's widow was named to fill his seat by Missouri Governor Roger Wilson until a special election was held. However, she lost the subsequent 2002 election to fill out the rest of the six-year term. In 2002, Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was appointed by her father Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski, who had resigned from the Senate to become governor, to serve the remaining two years of his term. Lisa Murkowski defeated former governor Tony Knowles in her retention bid in 2004.
Two recent members of the Senate brought with them a combination of name recognition resulting from the political careers of their famous husbands and their own substantial experience in public affairs. The first, former Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), is married to former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole and served as Secretary of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of Labor under President George H. W. Bush; she later ran a losing bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. The other, former Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), wife of former President Bill Clinton, was First Lady of the United States and First Lady of Arkansas before taking her seat in 2000. She too ran an unsuccessful campaign for her party's presidential nomination in 2008; she resigned in 2009 to become the secretary of state for the eventual victor of that election, Barack Obama. In 2016, she ran a successful campaign for her party's presidential nomination, eventually losing in the general election to Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Another famous name is Nancy Landon Kassebaum, the daughter of former Kansas governor and one-time presidential candidate Alf Landon. After retiring from the Senate, she married former Senator Howard Baker (R-TN). Kassebaum has the distinction of being the first female elected senator who did not succeed her husband in Congress (Margaret Chase Smith was only elected to the Senate after succeeding her husband to his House seat). At the time of her retirement in 1997, Kassebaum was the second longest serving female senator, after Smith (Since 1997 five women have had Senate careers longer than Kassebaum's).
Firsts and onlies[edit]
The first woman in the Senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton, who served representing Georgia for only one day in 1922.
Hattie Caraway became the first woman to win election to the Senate (Arkansas), in 1932. Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate (she first served in the House, and began serving in the Senate in 1949), and she also won a 1960 race for Senate which was the nation's first ever race pitting two women (her and Lucia Cormier) against each other for a Senate seat.
In 1978, Nancy Kassebaum became the first woman ever elected to a full term in the Senate without her husband having previously served in Congress.[14] Muriel Humphrey Brown was the first and only Second Lady to serve in the United States Senate. After her husband, Hubert Humphrey, was defeated in the 1968 presidential election, he ran for his old Senate seat from Minnesota. Following his unexpected death, Brown was appointed by the Governor of Minnesota in 1978 to fill her late husband’s Senate seat. She served for less than one year, and did not seek reelection.
The first woman to be elected to the Senate without any family connections was Paula Hawkins, elected in 1980. In 1992, Dianne Feinstein was the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator from a different party when she defeated appointed Senator John Seymour in a special election. Feinstein entered the Senate in 1992 as the first female Jewish senator.[4][5][6]
Women were not allowed to wear pants on the Senate floor until 1993.[8][9] In 1993, Senators Barbara Mikulski and Carol Moseley Braun wore pants onto the floor in defiance of the rule, and female support staff followed soon after, with the rule being amended later that year by Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Martha Pope to allow women to wear pants on the floor so long as they also wore a jacket.[8][9]
The first time two female U.S. Senators from the same state served concurrently was beginning in 1993; Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer (both D-CA) were both elected in 1992, with Feinstein taking office that same year (as the result of a special election) and Boxer taking office in 1993 until 2016 when Boxer retired and Feinstein was joined by Kamala Harris. In 1993 Carol Moseley Braun, who was African-American and had been elected the previous year, became the first woman of color in the Senate. She was also the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator, having toppled Senator Alan Dixon in the Democratic primary in 1992. Olympia Snowe arrived in the Senate in 1995, having previously served in the House of Representatives and both houses of the Maine state legislature. She and later Debbie Stabenow of Michigan are the only women to have served in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of the federal legislature.
In 2000, Stabenow and Maria Cantwell became the first women to defeat incumbent elected senators in a general election, unseating Senators Spencer Abraham and Slade Gorton respectively. Hillary Clinton was the first and only First Lady to run for and win a United States Senate seat; she joined the Senate in 2001. She is also the only female U.S. Senator (and only woman) to be the nominee of a major party for President of the United States, which occurred in 2016.
In 2008, Kay Hagan became the first woman to unseat a female incumbent, Elizabeth Dole. Upon the opening of the 112th Congress in 2011, New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen was joined by newly elected Republican Kelly Ayotte, making the first female tandem senators that do not belong to the same party. Mazie Hirono, who joined the Senate in 2013, was the first Asian American woman and first Buddhist person in the Senate.
Tammy Baldwin, who joined the Senate in 2013, was the first and only openly gay person to serve in the United States Senate.[15] Joni Ernst became the first female combat veteran to serve in the Senate when she joined in 2015. In 2016, Kamala Harris was the first woman to defeat another woman from the same party, U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, in a general election. In 2017 Tammy Duckworth became the first female double amputee in the Senate and Catherine Cortez Masto joined the Senate as its first Latina.
Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire hold the distinction of being the first and second women elected both Governor and U.S. Senator of a state; both served as Governor of New Hampshire and served together in the Senate starting in 2017. Tammy Duckworth became the first woman to give birth while holding a senate seat in the United States in 2018. Duckworth gave birth to Maile Pearl on April 9th, 2018.[11] Shortly afterward, rules were changed so that a Senator has the right to bring a child under one year old on the Senate floor and breastfeed them during votes.[12] The day after those rules were changed, Maile became the first baby on the Senate floor when Duckworth brought her.[12][13]
Houses served[edit]
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) arrived in the Senate in 1995, having previously served in the House of Representatives and both houses of the Maine state legislature. She and later Debbie Stabenow of Michigan are the only women to have served in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of the federal legislature.
Defeated incumbents[edit]
In 1992, Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL) became the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator when she toppled Senator Alan Dixon in the Democratic primary. Later that year, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator from a different party when she defeated appointed Senator John Seymour in a special election. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) duplicated Feinstein's feat in 1993, toppling appointed Senator Bob Krueger in a special election. In 2000, Stabenow (D-MI) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) became the first women to defeat incumbent elected senators in a general election, unseating Senators Spencer Abraham and Slade Gorton respectively. In 2008, Kay Hagan became the first woman to unseat a female incumbent, Elizabeth Dole. In 2016, Maggie Hassan repeated Hagan's feat and unseated Kelly Ayotte. In 2016, Kamala Harris was the first woman to defeat another woman from the same party, Rep. Loretta Sanchez, in a General Election.
Senators from the same state[edit]
The first time two female senators from the same state served concurrently were Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer (both D-CA), both elected in 1992, with Feinstein taking office that same year (as the result of a special election) and Boxer taking office in 1993 until 2016 when Boxer retired and Feinstein was joined by Kamala Harris. For a brief time, there were two female senators from Kansas serving concurrently, when Nancy Kassebaum and Sheila Frahm briefly served together after Frahm's appointment in 1996; Frahm did not win election to the seat and left office later the same year. Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins served concurrently from 1997, when Collins entered office, to 2013, when Snowe retired. Washington Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell have also served concurrently since 2001, when Cantwell entered office. Upon the opening of the 112th Congress, New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen was joined by newly elected Republican Kelly Ayotte, making the first female tandem senators that do not belong to the same party. In 2016, Democrat Maggie Hassan defeated Kelly Ayotte to make the sixth pair of female senators with Jeanne Shaheen in two pairs. Both Hassan and Shaheen served as Governor of New Hampshire prior to their election to the Senate. Upon Tina Smith being sworn in to the Senate on January 3, 2018 following her appointment to a vacant Minnesota seat, she commenced serving alongside Amy Klobuchar as the seventh pair of female senators.
List of states represented by women[edit]
This map shows which states have had/has a female senator via party
Democrat(s)
Republican(s)
Both a Democrat and a Republican
Eight Democratic women senators appear at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver. It has become a tradition at Democratic conventions for incumbent women senators to appear on opening night.
30 states have been represented by female Senators, and 19 are currently represented. In 2009, North Carolina became the first state to have been represented by female Senators of both parties, and the first to have a female Senator succeeded by a female Senator from the other party. In 2011, New Hampshire became the second state to be represented by female Senators from both parties, and the first to have female Senators of both parties serving concurrently.
State
Current
Previous
Total
Alabama 0 2 2
Alaska 1 0 1
Arizona 0 0 0
Arkansas 0 2 2
California 2 1 3
Colorado 0 0 0
Connecticut 0 0 0
Delaware 0 0 0
Florida 0 1 1
Georgia 0 1 1
Hawaii 1 0 1
Idaho 0 0 0
Illinois 1 1 2
Indiana 0 0 0
Iowa 1 0 1
Kansas 0 2 2
Kentucky 0 0 0
Louisiana 0 3 3
Maine 1 2 3
Maryland 0 1 1
Massachusetts 1 0 1
Michigan 1 0 1
Minnesota 2 1 3
Mississippi 1 0 1
Missouri 1 1 2
Nebraska 1 2 3
Nevada 1 0 1
New Hampshire 2 1 3
New Jersey 0 0 0
New Mexico 0 0 0
New York 1 1 2
North Carolina 0 2 2
North Dakota 1 1 2
Ohio 0 0 0
Oklahoma 0 0 0
Oregon 0 1 1
Pennsylvania 0 0 0
Rhode Island 0 0 0
South Carolina 0 0 0
South Dakota 0 2 2
Tennessee 0 0 0
Texas 0 1 1
Utah 0 0 0
Vermont 0 0 0
Virginia 0 0 0
Washington 2 0 2
West Virginia 1 0 1
Wisconsin 1 0 1
Wyoming 0 0 0
List of female U.S. Senators[edit]
Portrait
Name
(lifespan)
State
Term start
Term end
Length of
service (days)
Entered by
Left for
Party
Rebecca Felton
(1835–1930) Georgia November 21, 1922 November 22, 1922 7000100000000000000♠1 Appointment Appointment ended Democratic
Hattie Caraway
(1878–1950) Arkansas December 9, 1931 January 3, 1945 7003477400000000000♠4,774 Appointment Lost renomination Democratic
Rose Long
(1892–1970) Louisiana January 31, 1936 January 3, 1937 7002337000000000000♠337 Appointment Appointment ended Democratic
Dixie Graves
(1882–1965) Alabama August 20, 1937 January 10, 1938 7002143000000000000♠143 Appointment Appointment ended Democratic
Gladys Pyle
(1890–1989) South Dakota November 9, 1938 January 3, 1939 7001550000000000000♠55 Special election Retired Republican
Vera C. Bushfield
(1889–1976) South Dakota October 6, 1948 December 26, 1948 7001810000000000000♠81 Appointment Appointment ended Republican
Margaret Chase Smith
(1897–1995) Maine January 3, 1949 January 3, 1973 7003876600000000000♠8,766 Election Lost reelection Republican
Eva Bowring
(1892–1985) Nebraska April 16, 1954 November 7, 1954 7002205000000000000♠205 Appointment Appointment ended Republican
Hazel Abel
(1888–1966) Nebraska November 8, 1954 December 31, 1954 7001530000000000000♠53 Special election Retired and resigned early[n 1] Republican
Maurine Neuberger
(1907–2000) Oregon November 9, 1960 January 3, 1967 7003224600000000000♠2,246 Special election Retired Democratic
Elaine Edwards
(1929–2018) Louisiana August 1, 1972 November 13, 1972 7002104000000000000♠104 Appointment Appointment ended Democratic
Muriel Humphrey
(1912–1998) Minnesota January 25, 1978 November 7, 1978 7002286000000000000♠286 Appointment Appointment ended Democratic
Maryon Allen
(1925–2018) Alabama June 8, 1978 November 7, 1978 7002152000000000000♠152 Appointment Lost nomination to finish term Democratic
Nancy Kassebaum
(born 1932) Kansas December 23, 1978 January 3, 1997 7003658600000000000♠6,586 Election[n 2] Retired Republican
Paula Hawkins
(1927–2009) Florida January 1, 1981 January 3, 1987 7003219300000000000♠2,193 Election[n 2] Lost reelection Republican
Barbara Mikulski
(born 1936) Maryland January 3, 1987 January 3, 2017 7004109590000000000♠10,959 Election Retired Democratic
Jocelyn Burdick
(born 1922) North Dakota September 16, 1992 December 14, 1992 7001890000000000000♠89 Appointment Appointment ended Democratic
Dianne Feinstein
(born 1933) California November 10, 1992 present 7003948400000000000♠9,484 Special election Incumbent Democratic
Barbara Boxer
(born 1940) California January 3, 1993 January 3, 2017 7003876700000000000♠8,767 Election Retired Democratic
Carol Moseley-Braun
(born 1947) Illinois January 3, 1993 January 3, 1999 7003219100000000000♠2,191 Election Lost reelection Democratic
Patty Murray
(born 1950) Washington January 3, 1993 present 7003943000000000000♠9,430 Election Incumbent Democratic
Kay Hutchison
(born 1943) Texas June 14, 1993 January 3, 2013 7003714300000000000♠7,143 Special election Retired Republican
Olympia Snowe
(born 1947) Maine January 3, 1995 January 3, 2013 7003657600000000000♠6,576 Election Retired Republican
Sheila Frahm
(born 1945) Kansas June 11, 1996 November 6, 1996 7002148000000000000♠148 Appointment Lost nomination to finish term Republican
Susan Collins
(born 1952) Maine January 3, 1997 present 7003796900000000000♠7,969 Election Incumbent Republican
Mary Landrieu
(born 1955) Louisiana January 3, 1997 January 3, 2015 7003657500000000000♠6,575 Election Lost reelection Democratic
Blanche Lincoln
(born 1960) Arkansas January 3, 1999 January 3, 2011 7003438300000000000♠4,383 Election Lost reelection Democratic
Maria Cantwell
(born 1958) Washington January 3, 2001 present 7003650800000000000♠6,508 Election Incumbent Democratic
Jean Carnahan
(born 1933) Missouri January 3, 2001 November 25, 2002 7002691000000000000♠691 Appointment Lost election to finish term Democratic
Hillary Clinton
(born 1947) New York January 3, 2001 January 21, 2009 7003294000000000000♠2,940 Election Resigned to become United States Secretary of State Democratic
Debbie Stabenow
(born 1950) Michigan January 3, 2001 present 7003650800000000000♠6,508 Election Incumbent Democratic
Lisa Murkowski
(born 1957) Alaska December 20, 2002 present 7003579200000000000♠5,792 Appointment Incumbent Republican
Elizabeth Dole
(born 1936) North Carolina January 3, 2003 January 3, 2009 7003219200000000000♠2,192 Election Lost reelection[n 3] Republican

Amy Klobuchar
(born 1960) Minnesota January 3, 2007 present 7003431700000000000♠4,317 Election Incumbent Democratic
Claire McCaskill
(born 1953) Missouri January 3, 2007 present 7003431700000000000♠4,317 Election Incumbent Democratic
Jeanne Shaheen
(born 1947) New Hampshire January 3, 2009 present 7003358600000000000♠3,586 Election Incumbent Democratic
Kay Hagan
(born 1953) North Carolina January 3, 2009 January 3, 2015 7003219100000000000♠2,191 Election[n 3] Lost reelection Democratic
Kirsten Gillibrand
(born 1966) New York January 26, 2009 present 7003356300000000000♠3,563 Appointment Incumbent Democratic
Kelly Ayotte
(born 1968) New Hampshire January 3, 2011 January 3, 2017 7003219200000000000♠2,192 Election Lost reelection Republican
Tammy Baldwin
(born 1962) Wisconsin January 3, 2013 present 7003212500000000000♠2,125 Election Incumbent Democratic
Deb Fischer
(born 1951) Nebraska January 3, 2013 present 7003212500000000000♠2,125 Election Incumbent Republican
Heidi Heitkamp
(born 1955) North Dakota January 3, 2013 present 7003212500000000000♠2,125 Election Incumbent Democratic
Mazie Hirono
(born 1947) Hawaii January 3, 2013 present 7003212500000000000♠2,125 Election Incumbent Democratic
Elizabeth Warren
(born 1949) Massachusetts January 3, 2013 present 7003212500000000000♠2,125 Election Incumbent Democratic
Joni Ernst
(born 1970) Iowa January 3, 2015 present 7003139500000000000♠1,395 Election Incumbent Republican
Shelley Moore Capito
(born 1953) West Virginia January 3, 2015 present 7003139500000000000♠1,395 Election Incumbent Republican
Catherine Cortez Masto
(born 1964) Nevada January 3, 2017 present 7002664000000000000♠664 Election Incumbent Democratic
Tammy Duckworth
(born 1968) Illinois January 3, 2017 present 7002664000000000000♠664 Election Incumbent Democratic
Kamala Harris
(born 1964) California January 3, 2017 present 7002664000000000000♠664 Election Incumbent Democratic
Maggie Hassan
(born 1958) New Hampshire January 3, 2017 present 7002664000000000000♠664 Election Incumbent Democratic
Tina Smith
(born 1958) Minnesota January 3, 2018 present 7002299000000000000♠299 Appointment Incumbent Democratic
Cindy Hyde-Smith
(born 1959) Mississippi April 9, 2018 present 7002203000000000000♠203 Appointment Incumbent Republican
Graphs[edit]
Histograph[edit]
Starting
Total
Graph
March 4, 1789 0
November 21, 1922 1 *
November 23, 1922 0
December 9, 1931 1 *
January 31, 1936 2 **
January 3, 1937 1 *
August 20, 1937 2 **
January 11, 1938 1 *
November 9, 1938 2 **
January 3, 1939 1 *
January 3, 1945 0
October 6, 1948 1 *
December 27, 1948 0
January 3, 1949 1 *
April 16, 1954 2 **
January 1, 1955 1 *
November 9, 1960 2 **
January 3, 1967 1 *
August 1, 1972 2 **
November 14, 1972 1 *
January 3, 1973 0
January 25, 1978 1 *
June 8, 1978 2 **
November 8, 1978 0
December 23, 1978 1 *
January 1, 1981 2 **
September 16, 1992 3 ***
November 10, 1992 4 ****
December 15, 1992 3 ***
January 3, 1993 6 ******
June 14, 1993 7 *******
January 3, 1995 8 ********
June 11, 1996 9 *********
November 7, 1996 8 ********
January 3, 1997 9 *********
January 3, 2001 13 *************
November 26, 2002 12 ************
December 20, 2002 13 *************
January 3, 2003 14 **************
January 3, 2007 16 ****************
January 3, 2009 17 *****************
January 22, 2009 16 ****************
January 26, 2009 17 *****************
January 3, 2013 20 ********************
January 3, 2017 21 *********************
January 3, 2018 22 **********************
April 9, 2018 23 ***********************
Time series[edit]
Pregnancies[edit]
Only one female member of the Senate has been pregnant during her tenure: Senator Tammy Duckworth, who gave birth on April 9, 2018.[11]

See also[edit]
Women in the United States House of Representatives
Widow's succession
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Abel resigned 3 days before the end of her term, a common practice to give her successor seniority advantage.
^ Jump up to: a b Predecessor resigned early to give successor seniority advantage, so the senator was appointed for the few days prior to the commencement of the elected term
^ Jump up to: a b When Kay Hagan defeated Elizabeth Dole, it was the first time in history a woman candidate defeated an incumbent woman.
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ "Women in the U.S. Senate 1922–2015" (PDF). Center for American Women and Politics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-03.
Jump up ^ Of the female Senators who preceded Kassebaum: Rebecca Latimer Felton, Rose McConnell Long, Dixie Bibb Graves, Vera C. Bushfield, Eva Bowring, Elaine S. Edwards, Muriel Humphrey, and Maryon Pittman Allen were all appointed and were never elected; Gladys Pyle (R-SD) and Hazel Abel (R-NE), were elected, but not to full terms (i.e., to complete terms where the previous senator had died or resigned, not to new six-year terms); Hattie Caraway and Maurine Brown Neuberger were both elected to full six-year terms, but their husbands had held the seat previously. Margaret Chase Smith's (R-ME) husband never served in the Senate, but he did serve in the House. When he died, Margaret won the ensuing election. Of the appointed senators, Long, Bushfield, Humphrey, and Allen were all appointed to fill out part of the terms of their deceased husbands, while Graves and Edwards were appointed by their husbands, the Governor of their states at the time. However, Kassebaum's father means that the first woman to be elected without any family connections was Paula Hawkins, elected in 1980.
Jump up ^ "U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1964 – Present > "Year of the Woman"".
^ Jump up to: a b "Jewesses in politics represent! | Jewish Women's Archive". Jwa.org. 2002-11-05. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
^ Jump up to: a b "Dianne Feinstein | Congress.gov | Library of Congress". Congress.gov. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
^ Jump up to: a b "Barbara Boxer | Congress.gov | Library of Congress". Congress.gov. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
Jump up ^ Plaskow, Judith (8 July 2008). "Embodiment, Elimination, and the Role of Toilets in Struggles for Social Justice". Cross Currents. 58 (1): 51–64. doi:10.1111/j.1939-3881.2008.00004.x.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Robin Givhan (January 21, 2004). "Moseley Braun: Lady in red". Articles.chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Cooper, Kent (2005-06-09). "The Long and Short of Capitol Style : Roll Call Special Features 50th Anniversary". Rollcall.com. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
Jump up ^ "U.S. Senate: Senators, 1789 to present". www.senate.gov. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Tammy Duckworth Becomes First U.S. Senator To Give Birth While In Office". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
^ Jump up to: a b c d CNN, Sunlen Serfaty,. "Babies now allowed on Senate floor after rule change".
^ Jump up to: a b "A duckling onesie and a blazer: The Senate floor sees its first baby, but many traditions stand". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
Jump up ^ Of the female Senators who preceded Kassebaum: Rebecca Latimer Felton, Rose McConnell Long (D-LA), Dixie Bibb Graves (D-AL), Vera C. Bushfield (R-SD), Eva Bowring (R-NE), Elaine S. Edwards (D-LA), Muriel Humphrey, and Maryon Pittman Allen were all appointed and were never elected; Gladys Pyle (R-SD) and Hazel Abel (R-NE), were elected, but not to full terms (i.e., to complete terms where the previous senator had died or resigned, not to new six-year terms); Hattie Caraway (D-AR) and Maurine Brown Neuberger (D-OR) were both elected to full six-year terms, but their husbands had held the seat previously. Margaret Chase Smith's (R-ME) husband never served in the Senate, but he did serve in the House. When he died, Margaret won the ensuing election. Of the appointed senators, Long, Bushfield, Humphrey, and Allen were all appointed to fill out part of the terms of their deceased husbands, while Graves and Edwards were appointed by their husbands, the Governor of their states at the time.
Jump up ^ CNN, By Emanuella Grinberg,. "Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin is first openly gay person elected to Senate - CNNPolitics". CNN. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
External links[edit]
U.S. Senate History: Women in the Senate
"Women in the U.S. Senate 1922–2010" Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Steinhauer, Jennifer (March 21, 2013). "Once Few, Women Hold More Power in Senate". The New York Times. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
Maurer, Elizabeth. "Legislating History: 100 Years of Women in Congress". National Women's History Museum. 2017.
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