Vida Goldstein became the 1st female in the British Empire to run for national office when she ran for the Australian Senate in 1902. At the time, women had recently gotten the right to vote in federal elections.
Dilma Rousseff is the first woman President of Brazil. She was inaugurated as President of Brazil on January 1, 2011.
Reagon was the first president to appoint a woman to the supreme court
On 12 March 1921 Mrs Edith Cowan became the first women to be elected to federal parliament in Australia. She was sixty years old.
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Vida Goldstein became the 1st female in the British Empire to run for national office when she ran for the Australian Senate in 1902. At the time, women had recently gotten the right to vote in federal elections.
Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi (D) President of the Senate (Vice President): None
It is unknown who the first woman to vote was.
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You are probably asking about a "senator"-- the senate is a branch of congress. The first woman senator was appointed for just one day in 1922-- Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia. But the first woman to be elected to the senate for an actual term was Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, in 1932.
Dilma Rousseff is the first woman to become president of Brazil.
Dilma Rousseff is the first woman President of Brazil. She was inaugurated as President of Brazil on January 1, 2011.
Reagon was the first president to appoint a woman to the supreme court
The first woman president of Costa Rica was Laura Chinchilla.
Katie Sarah. On 25 May 2010, 38-year-old Katie Sarah became the first South Australian woman and the seventh Australian woman to reach the summit of Mt Everest.
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Rebecca Felton of Georgia