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Jeannette Rankin, First Woman in the United States Congress

Jeannette Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) is often remembered primarily for being the first woman elected into the U.S. Congress. However, her…

Tags: Congress, Congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin, Montana, Pacifism, War, Women

US Library of Congress, 1907 - 1925 Robert Latham Owen - First US Senator of Native American Descent, Library of Congress, c. 1910 Dec. 31

Oklahoma Sen. Robert L. Owen (1907-1925) was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1856, to Robert Owen, president of the Virginia and Tennessee Railway,…

Tags: Child Labor Act, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Act, Native American, Oklahoma, Robert Latham Owen, US Senator

Unknown, 1959 - 1977 Hiram Leong Fong - First Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate, Library of Congress, c. 1960-1970

Senator Hiram Leong Fong became one of Hawaii’s first two U.S. Senators in 1959, upon the state’s admission to the Union. The son of Chinese…

Tags: Asian American, Civil Rights, Hawaii, Hiram Leong Fong, Immigration Reform, US Senator, Voting Rights

Unknown, 1928-1929 Octaviano Larrazolo - First Hispanic American U.S. Senator, Library of Congress, 1919

Octaviano Larrazolo was the first Hispanic to serve in the United States Senate and was in office during the Seventieth Congress 12/07/ 1928 –…

Tags: Hispanic, New Mexico, Octaviano Larrazolo, Texas, US Senator, Welfare, Women's Suffrage

Smithsonian-led Team of 3-D Digital Imaging Specialists, Smithsonian 3-D Portrait of President Barack Obama, First African-American U.S. President, Smithsonian Institution, 12/02/2014

People have always sought to document their leaders with the best technology available in their time, and the Smithsonian collects the results of…

Tags: 3D, 3D Portrait, African-American, Barack Obama, National Portrait Gallery, Obama, Presidents, Smithsonian

Records of the National Woman's Party, Margaret B. Laird - Elected to New Jersey Assembly- 1920, Library of Congress, Circa 1916-1920

Mrs. Margaret B. Laird was for four years treasurer N.J. Branch National Woman's Party. The origins of the National Woman's Party (NWP) date from…

Tags: Margaret B. Laird, New Jersey, Women, Women's Suffrage

National Archives, William Livingston First Governor of New Jersey 1776-1790, National Archives, No date given

William Livingston 1723 - 1790, served as the Governor of New Jersey 1776 - 1790, during the American Revolutionary War and was a signer of the United…

Tags: Governor, Library, New Jersey, Poems, Poetry, US Constitution, William Livingston

McKinley Presidential Campaign, William McKinley Presidential Campaign, Library of Congress, 1895-1900

"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be." - Sydney J. Harris In the 1896…

Tags: Campaign, Industrial, Presidents, Progressive Era, Republican Party, William McKinley

Mathew Brady or Levin Handy, Joseph Rainey, First African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1869-1879, Library of Congress, Between 1865 and 1880

Joseph Hayne Rainey, 1832-1887. Born in Georgetown, South Carolina. He was the first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives,…

Tags: African-American, Congress, House of Representatives, Joseph Hayne Rainey, Reconstruction Era

Mathew Brady, 1845-51 & 1855-61 David Levy Yulee - First Jewish American U.S. Senator, Library of Congress, 1855-1865

David Levy Yulee was a Delegate and a Senator from Florida; born David Levy in St. Thomas, West Indies, June 12, 1810. At the age of nine was sent to…

Tags: Confederacy, Daniel Levy Yulee, Florida, Jewish., Railroad, US Senator