Stacey Plaskett
US Congressional Delegate from the Virgin Islands
US Congressional Delegate from the Virgin Islands
US Representative from Florida
In 1972, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke made history as the first African-American woman elected to Congress from California and only the third Black woman to serve on Capitol Hill.
US Representative from Pennsylvania
US Senator and Representative from Wisconsin
US Representative from California
US Representative from North Carolina
US Representative from Arizona
A Polish émigré who fled the Nazis and settled in America, Sala Galante Burton succeeded her husband, the powerful California Representative Phillip Burton, after he died suddenly in 1983.
US Representative from Texas