Sentences with phrase «woman elected statewide»
In 2000, Hillary Clinton made history as the first first lady elected to the U.S. Senate, and the first woman elected statewide in New York.
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Hochul is only one of two women who serve as statewide elected officials, the other being Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
If elected, Nixon would be the state's first woman governor, and its first openly gay statewide elected official.
She is the first woman of color to serve in a statewide elected executive office in New Jersey and the first Democratic black woman elected nationwide.
Just out of curiosity, I ran the numbers to see how many states have elected women to major statewide office, which I'm defining as governor...
Hochul is one of two women — along with U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — to be elected statewide in New York.
Sheinkopf noted that New York has elected women to statewide office - see Clinton, Hillary, and McCaughey, Betsy - and had its first black governor in David Paterson.
Lipton and others within the party, sources say, believe running someone who would likely launch a Democratic primary challenge against James, looking to become the first black woman elected to statewide office, could alienate African - American liberals the Working Families Party is trying to cultivate.
She is the first woman of color to be elected to statewide office in New Jersey, and her experience leading a chamber of the state Legislature is seen as an asset for Murphy in learning how to navigate the state's sometimes - Byzantine political culture.
Female candidates for elected office do as well as male candidates in terms of raising money and winning votes, so why do women only occupy 19 percent of congressional seats and approximately 25 percent of statewide offices and hold fewer governorships and mayorships?
The nation's first Native American woman elected to a statewide office brings a passion about public education to her job as Montana's Superintendent of Public Instruction.