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Women Representatives and Senators by State and Territory, 1917–Present

The table is supplemented by an interactive map of the United States and is based on information drawn from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. States are listed in alphabetical order. Names are followed by the year the Representative or Senator first took office.

Alabama

Alabama, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Elizabeth Bullock Andrews (1972) Martha Roby (2011) Terri Sewell (2011)	Dixie Bibb Graves (1937) Maryon Pittman Allen (1978)

Alaska

Alaska, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
N/A	Lisa Murkowski (2002)

Arizona

Arizona, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Isabella S. Greenway (1933) Karan English (1993) Gabrielle Giffords (2007) Ann Kirkpatrick (2009)	N/A

Arkansas

Arkansas, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Pearl Oldfield (1929) Effiegene Locke Wingo (1930) Catherine D. Norrell (1961) Blanche Lambert Lincoln (1993)	Hattie Wyatt Caraway (1931) Blanche Lambert Lincoln (1999)

California

California, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House

Senate

Mae Ella Nolan (1923) Florence P. Kahn (1925) Helen Gahagan Douglas (1945) Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (1973) Shirley N. Pettis (1975) Bobbi Fiedler (1981) Barbara Boxer (1983) Sala Galante Burton (1983) Nancy Pelosi (1987) Maxine Waters (1991) Lynn Schenk (1993) Jane F. Harman (1993) Lucille Roybal-Allard (1993) Anna Georges Eshoo (1993) Lynn C. Woolsey (1993) Andrea Seastrand (1995) Zoe Lofgren (1995) Juanita Millender-McDonald (1996) Ellen O’Kane Tauscher (1997) Loretta Sanchez (1997) Mary Bono Mack (1998) Lois Capps (1998) Barbara Lee (1998) Grace Flores Napolitano (1999) Susan A. Davis (2001) Hilda L. Solis (2001) Diane Edith Watson (2001) Linda T. Sánchez (2003) Doris Matsui (2005) Laura Richardson (2007) Jackie Speier (2008) Judy Chu (2009) Janice Hahn (2011) Karen Bass (2011)

Dianne Feinstein (1992) Barbara Boxer (1993)

Colorado

Colorado, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Patricia S. Schroeder (1973) Diana L. DeGette (1997) Marilyn N. Musgrave (2003) Betsy Markey (2009)	N/A

Connecticut

Connecticut, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Clare Boothe Luce (1943) Chase Going Woodhouse (1945) Ella Tambussi Grasso (1971) Barbara B. Kennelly (1982) Nancy L. Johnson (1983) Rosa DeLauro (1991)	N/A

District of Columbia

District of Columbia, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Eleanor Holmes Norton (1991)	N/A

Florida

Florida, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Ruth Bryan Owen (1929) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (1989) Tillie Kidd Fowler (1993) Carrie P. Meek (1993) Corrine Brown (1993) Karen L. Thurman (1993) Katherine Harris (2003) Virginia (Ginny) Brown-Waite (2003) Debbie Wasserman Schultz (2005) Kathy Castor (2007) Suzanne Kosmas (2009) Frederica Wilson (2011) Sandra (Sandy) Adams (2011)	Paula Fickes Hawkins (1981)

Georgia

Georgia, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Florence Reville Gibbs (1940) Helen Douglas Mankin (1946) Iris Faircloth Blitch (1955) Denise Majette (2003) Cynthia McKinney (2005)	Rebecca Latimer Felton (1922)

Guam

Guam, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Madeleine Z. Bordallo (2003)	N/A

Hawaii

Hawaii, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Mary E. (Betty) Farrington (1954) Patricia F. Saiki (1987) Patsy T. Mink (1990) Mazie Hirono (2007) Colleen Hanabusa (2011)	N/A

Idaho

Idaho, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Gracie Bowers Pfost (1953) Helen P. Chenoweth (1995)	N/A

Illinois

Illinois, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Winnifred S. Huck (1922) Ruth Hanna McCormick (1929) Jessie Sumner (1939) Emily Taft Douglas (1945) Marguerite Stitt Church (1951) Edna O. Simpson (1959) Charlotte T. Reid (1963) Cardiss Collins (1973) Lynn Martin (1981) Janice Schakowsky (1999) Judy Borg Biggert (1999) Melissa Bean (2005) Deborah L. Halvorson (2009)	Carol Moseley-Braun (1993)

Indiana

Indiana, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Virginia Ellis Jenckes (1933) Cecil Murray Harden (1949) Katie Beatrice Hall (1982) Jill L. Long (1989) Julia May Carson (1997)	N/A

Kansas

Kansas, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Kathryn O’Loughlin McCarthy (1933) Martha Elizabeth Keys (1975) Jan L. Meyers (1985) Nancy Boyda (2007) Lynn Jenkins (2009)	Nancy Landon Kassebaum (1978) Sheila Frahm (1996)

Kentucky

Kentucky, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Katherine Gudger Langley (1927) Anne Meagher Northup (1997)	N/A

Louisiana

Louisiana, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs (1973) Catherine S. Long (1985)	Rose McConnell Long (1936) Elaine S. Edwards (1972) Mary Landrieu (1997)

Maine

Maine, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Margaret Chase Smith (1940) Olympia Jean Snowe (1979) Chellie Pingree (2009)	Margaret Chase Smith (1949) Olympia Jean Snowe (1995) Susan Margaret Collins (1997)

Maryland

Maryland, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Katharine Edgar Byron (1941) Marjorie Sewell Holt (1973) Gladys Noon Spellman (1975) Barbara Ann Mikulski (1977) Beverly Butcher Byron (1979) Helen Delich Bentley (1985) Constance A. Morella (1987) Donna F. Edwards (2008)	Barbara Ann Mikulski (1987)

Massachusetts

Massachusetts, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Edith Nourse Rogers (1925) Margaret M. Heckler (1967) Louise Day Hicks (1971) Nicola S. (Niki) Tsongas (2007)	N/A

Michigan

Michigan, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Ruth Thompson (1951) Martha Wright Griffiths (1955) Barbara-Rose Collins (1991) Lynn Nancy Rivers (1995) Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (1997) Deborah A. Stabenow (1997) Candice Miller (2003)	Deborah A. Stabenow (2001)

Minnesota

Minnesota, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Coya Knutson (1955) Betty McCollum (2001) Michele Bachmann (2007)	Muriel Humphrey (1978) Amy Klobuchar (2007)

Missouri

Missouri, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Leonor K. Sullivan (1953) Joan Kelly Horn (1991) Patsy Ann Danner (1993) Karen McCarthy (1995) Jo Ann Emerson (1996) Vicky Hartzler (2011)	Jean Carnahan (2001) Claire McCaskill (2007)

Montana

Montana, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Jeannette Rankin (1917)	N/A

Nebraska

Nebraska, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Virginia Dodd Smith (1975)	Eva Kelly Bowring (1954) Hazel Hempel Abel (1954)

Nevada

Nevada, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Barbara F. Vucanovich (1983) Shelley Berkley (1999) Dina Titus (2009)	N/A

New Hampshire

New Hampshire, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Carol Shea-Porter (2007)	Jeanne Shaheen (2009) Kelly Ayotte (2011)

New Jersey

New Jersey, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Mary T. Norton (1925) Florence P. Dwyer (1957) Helen Stevenson Meyner (1975) Millicent Fenwick (1975) Margaret (Marge) Roukema (1981)	N/A

New Mexico

New Mexico, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Georgia Lee Lusk (1947) Heather A. Wilson (1998)	N/A

New York

New York, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House

Senate

Ruth Sears Pratt (1929) Marian Williams Clarke (1933) Caroline O’Day (1935) Winifred Claire Stanley (1943) Katharine St. George (1947) Edna Flannery Kelly (1949) Jessica McCullough Weis (1959) Shirley Anita Chisholm (1969) Bella Savitzky Abzug (1971) Elizabeth Holtzman (1973) Geraldine Anne Ferraro (1979) Louise M. Slaughter (1987) Nita M. Lowey (1989) Susan Molinari (1990) Carolyn B. Maloney (1993) Nydia M. Velázquez (1993) Sue W. Kelly (1995) Carolyn McCarthy (1997) Yvette D. Clarke (2007) Kirsten Gillibrand (2007) Kathleen C. Hochul (2011) Nan Hayworth (2011) Ann Marie Buerkle (2011)

Hillary Rodham Clinton (2001) Kirsten Gillibrand (2009)

North Carolina

North Carolina, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Eliza Jane Pratt (1946) Eva M. Clayton (1992) Sue Myrick (1995) Virginia Foxx (2005) Renee Ellmers (2011)	Elizabeth Dole (2003) Kay Hagan (2009)

North Dakota

North Dakota, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
N/A	Jocelyn Birch Burdick (1992)

Ohio

Ohio, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Frances Payne Bolton (1940) Mary Rose Oakar (1977) Jean Spencer Ashbrook (1982) Marcia C. (Marcy) Kaptur (1983) Deborah D. Pryce (1993) Stephanie Tubbs Jones (1997) Jean Schmidt (2005) Betty Sutton (2007) Marcia L. Fudge (2008) Mary Jo Kilroy (2009)	N/A

Oklahoma

Oklahoma, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Alice Mary Robertson (1921) Mary Fallin (2007)	N/A

Oregon

Oregon, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Nan Wood Honeyman (1937) Edith Starrett Green (1955) Elizabeth Furse (1993) Darlene K. Hooley (1997) Suzanne Bonamici (2012)	Maurine B. Neuberger (1960)

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Veronica Grace Boland (1942) Vera Daerr Buchanan (1951) Kathryn E. Granahan (1956) Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (1993) Melissa A. Hart (2001) Allyson Schwartz (2005) Kathleen A. Dahlkemper (2009)	N/A

Rhode Island

Rhode Island, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Claudine Schneider (1981)	N/A

South Carolina

South Carolina, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Elizabeth H. Gasque (1938) Clara G. McMillan (1939) Willa Lybrand Fulmer (1944) Corinne Boyd Riley (1962) Elizabeth J. Patterson (1987)	N/A

South Dakota

South Dakota, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (2004) Kristi Noem (2011)	Gladys S. Pyle (1938) Vera Cahalan Bushfield (1948)

Tennessee

Tennessee, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Willa McCord Blake Eslick (1932) Louise G. Reece (1961) Irene Bailey Baker (1964) Marilyn Lloyd (1975) Marsha Blackburn (2003) Diane Black (2011)	N/A

Texas

Texas, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Lera Millard Thomas (1966) Barbara Jordan (1973) Eddie Bernice Johnson (1993) Sheila Jackson Lee (1995) Kay Granger (1997) Shelley Sekula Gibbs (2006)	Kathryn Ann Bailey Hutchison (1993)

Utah

Utah, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Reva Beck Bosone (1949) Karen Shepherd (1993) Enid Greene Waldholtz (1995)	N/A

Virgin Islands

Virgin Islands, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Donna M. Christensen (1997)	N/A

Virginia

Virginia, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Leslie L. Byrne (1993) Jo Ann Davis (2001) Thelma Drake (2005)	N/A

Washington

Washington, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Catherine Dean May (1959) Julia Butler Hansen (1960) Jolene Unsoeld (1989) Maria E. Cantwell (1993) Jennifer Dunn (1993) Linda Smith (1995) Cathy McMorris Rodgers (2005) Jaime Herrera Beutler (2011)	Patty Murray (1993) Maria E. Cantwell (2001)

West Virginia

West Virginia, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Maude Elizabeth Kee (1951) Shelley Moore Capito (2001)	N/A

Wisconsin

Wisconsin, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Tammy Baldwin (1999) Gwen Moore (2005)	N/A

Wyoming

Wyoming, Women Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Barbara L. Cubin (1995) Cynthia M. Lummis (2009)	N/A

Footnotes

1. The following states and territories have never elected a woman to Congress: American Samoa, Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Vermont.