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<title>Senator Creek</title>
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<title>Brooke Elected Senator</title>
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1967. Edward W. Brooke becomes the first African American U.S. Senator since Reconstruction. He serves two terms as a Republican from Massachusetts. (http://www.pbs.org)<br/>Tags: senator, african american, republican<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34873">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        In 1902 she married Thaddeus H. Caraway, who subsequently became a congressman and then a U.S. senator for Arkansas.

When Thaddeus died in November 1931 Hattie Caraway was appointed by the governor to fill her husband's seat until a special election could be held; she thereby became the second woman (after Rebecca Felton, 1922) to be seated in the U.S. Senate. She won a special election (January 1932) to fill the few remaining months of her late husband's term. She won reelection in her own right to the seat later in 1932 with the help of Louisiana governor Huey Long, who campaigned for her. Caraway was reelected again in 1938 but failed in her bid for a third term in 1944. In her 13 years in the Senate, she was the first woman to preside over a session of that body and the first to serve as a committee chairman.

Born Feb. 1, 1878, near Bakerville, Tenn., U.S.
died Dec. 21, 1950, Falls Church, Va.<br/>Tags: woman, politician, senator, first female elected to the senate<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32827">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        1992/11/03. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois was the first black woman ever elected to the United States Senate. Carol Moseley attended the University of Illinois at Chicago (B.A., 1969) and received a law degree from the University of Chicago (1972). She married Michael Braun in 1973 (divorced 1986) and worked as an assistant U.S. attorney before her election to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1978. During her 10 years there she became known for her advocacy of health-care and education reform and gun control. She was named assistant leader for the Democratic majority.

From 1988 to 1992 Moseley Braun served as Cook county (Illinois) recorder of deeds. Displeased with U.S. Senator Alan Dixon's support of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, she ran against Dixon in the 1992 Democratic primary. Though poorly financed, she won an upset victory over Dixon on her way to capturing a seat in the Senate.

Shortly after becoming senator, Moseley Braun won clashes with Southern senators over a patent for a Confederate insignia. She was noted for her support of individual retirement accounts for homemakers and for filibustering to restore budget monies for youth job training and for senior citizens. Her record was tarnished, however, by her helping to ease legal restrictions on the sale of two television broadcasting companies, by lavish personal spending of campaign money, and by her favouring legislation to benefit a corporate campaign donor. She also was criticized for associating with two Nigerian military dictators.

In 1998 Moseley Braun lost her seat to her Republican challenger, Peter Fitzgerald. From 1999 to 2001 she served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand. She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2004. (http://www.galegroup.com)<br/>Tags: african american, woman, senate, senator, first african american woman senator<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34453">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        "2004/11/02. 
Barack Obama becomes the third African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate after Reconstruction. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) Obama is currently the only African-American US Senator, and only the fifth in US history."<br/>Tags: africanamerican, politics, senator, historic, senate, democrat, charismatic.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34415">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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