Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
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.
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Summer Lee
US Representative from Pennsylvania
Tammy Baldwin
US Senator and Representative from Wisconsin
Sydney Kamlager-Dove
US Representative from California
Valerie Foushee
US Representative from North Carolina
Yassamin Ansari
US Representative from Arizona
Sala Burton
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.
Sylvia Garcia
US Representative from Texas
Terri Sewell
US Representative from Alabama
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
US Representative from Florida