Women Senators For The 113th Congress
At January 2011, there were 17 women serving in the 100-person body. For four states, California, Washington, Maine, and New Hampshire, both senators were women. California's two senators (Boxer and Feinstein) were the first two women to be elected to the U.S. Senate in the same election (in 1992) from the same state. Seven female senators had previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives—a distinction long held by only Margaret Chase Smith—Sens. Mikulski, Boxer, Snowe, Lincoln, Stabenow, Cantwell, and Gillibrand.
From January 2013, the number of serving women senators will increase to 20, of whom 16 are Democratic, whilst the remaining four are Republican. Republican Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas) and Olympia Snowe (Maine) did not seek re-election, while five new women senators were elected: Republican Deb Fischer (Nebraska) and Democrats Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin), Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) and Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts).
| Class | State | Name | Party | Prior Experience | First took office |
Born |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Alaska | Lisa Murkowski | Republican | Alaska House of Representatives | 2002 | 1957 |
| 1 | California | Dianne Feinstein | Democratic | President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor of San Francisco | 1992 | 1933 |
| 3 | California | Barbara Boxer | Democratic | Marin County Board of Supervisors, U.S. House of Representatives | 1993 | 1940 |
| 1 | Hawaii | Mazie Hirono | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, Hawaii House of Representatives | 2013 | 1947 |
| 2 | Louisiana | Mary Landrieu | Democratic | Louisiana House of Representatives, Louisiana State Treasurer | 1997 | 1955 |
| 2 | Maine | Susan Collins | Republican | Deputy Maine Treasurer; gubernatorial nominee | 1997 | 1952 |
| 3 | Maryland | Barbara Mikulski | Democratic | Baltimore City Council, U.S. House of Representatives | 1987 | 1936 |
| 1 | Massachusetts | Elizabeth Warren | Democratic | None | 2013 | 1949 |
| 1 | Michigan | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan Senate, U.S. House of Representatives | 2001 | 1950 |
| 1 | Minnesota | Amy Klobuchar | Democratic-Farmer-Labor | Hennepin County Attorney | 2007 | 1960 |
| 1 | Missouri | Claire McCaskill | Democratic | Missouri House of Representatives, Jackson County Legislature, Jackson County, Missouri Prosecutor, State Auditor of Missouri | 2007 | 1953 |
| 1 | Nebraska | Deb Fischer | Republican | Nebraska Legislature | 2013 | 1951 |
| 2 | New Hampshire | Jeanne Shaheen | Democratic | New Hampshire Senate, Governor of New Hampshire | 2009 | 1947 |
| 3 | New Hampshire | Kelly Ayotte | Republican | New Hampshire Attorney General | 2011 | 1968 |
| 1 | New York | Kirsten Gillibrand | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives | 2009 | 1966 |
| 2 | North Carolina | Kay Hagan | Democratic | North Carolina Senate | 2009 | 1953 |
| 1 | North Dakota | Heidi Heitkamp | Democratic | North Dakota Attorney General, North Dakota Tax Commissioner | 2013 | 1955 |
| 3 | Washington | Patty Murray | Democratic | Washington Senate | 1993 | 1950 |
| 1 | Washington | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | Washington House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives | 2001 | 1958 |
| 1 | Wisconsin | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | Wisconsin State Assembly, U.S. House of Representatives | 2013 | 1962 |
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