Tammy Baldwin

Tammy Baldwin

Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11, 1962) is an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who has served as the U.S. Representative from Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district since 1999. She is going to leave that office to assume the Class I Senator seat in Wisconsin to which she was elected on 6 November 2012, defeating her Republican opponent and former four-term governor of Wisconsin Tommy Thompson. She is first woman elected to represent Wisconsin in the Senate and nationally the first openly gay person elected to the Senate.