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Women in the Senate

There are currently seventeen women in the Senate. Find out more about them and their predecessors with the links below.

Origins & Developments

Landmark Legislation: 19th Amendment

Senate Firsts

First Woman to Run for a Senate Seat Nov 5, 1918

First Woman Senator Appointed Oct 3, 1922

A Woman Presides over the Senate Oct 19, 1943

First Woman Elected to Both Houses of Congress Sep 13, 1948

First Female Pages in the Senate May 14, 1971

Smith vs. Cormier, 1960

Women & the Senate

Women Senators

List of Women who Served in the Senate

Featured Senators

Hattie Wyat Caraway

Rebecca Latimer Felton

Nancy L. Kassebaum

Margaret Chase Smith | Smith's Declaration of Conscience, Jun 1, 1950

Book Profile

Nine and Counting

Senate Staff

        Oral Histories
            Christine S. McCreary |   Audio Clip
            Dorothye G. Scott
            Ruth Young Watt |   Audio Clip

Art & Photographs

Paintings & Sculpture

Women & Senate Art

Featured Senate Debate: July 27, 1866

Portrait: Hattie Caraway by John Oliver Buckley

Portrait: Margaret Chase Smith by Ronald Frontin

Photographs

Women in the Senate: Former Senators

Margaret Chase Smith

Women in Congress

Women in Congress

Women in Congress 1917-, CRS Report

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