Yassamin Ansari
US Representative from Arizona
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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
Martha Griffiths
Known as the “Mother of the ERA,” Martha Wright Griffiths, a peppery and quick-witted Detroit Representative, was a key figure in bringing women’s rights legislation to successful passage in Congress.
Yvette Clarke
US Representative from New York
Mary Teresa Norton
For a quarter century in the House, America knew Mary T. Norton as “Battling Mary,” a reformer who fought for the labor and working-class interests of her urban New Jersey district.
Yvette Herrell
US Representative from New Mexico
Mary Peltola
US Representative from Alaska