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The first woman to become president of the Philippines was Corazon C. Aquino. She came into office through a peaceful people's revolution.
The first woman elected to the senate was Hattie Wyatt Caroway of Arkansas. She was appointed to replace her husband, Senator Thaddeus Caroway, who died in office. She then ran for re-election in 1932, making her the first woman to be elected to office. The first woman to serve as a senator was Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia, who served for just 1 day in 1922 after her husband died in office.
Jeanette Rankin was elected by the state of Montana and was the first woman elected to Congress.
At this writing, 5/3/2010, no woman has ever been elected President or Vice President of the US.
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Shrimati Pratibha Devi Patil is the first elected woman President of India.
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The first black congresswoman that was elected from the deep south was Barbara Jordan. She was re-elected and she was the first woman that was elected to the Texas Senate.
That was Carol Mosely Braun, a Democrat from Illinois. She won the senatorial election in November 1992 and became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate. (There had already been a black woman elected to the House of Representatives-- Shirley Chisholm of New York, who was elected in 1968.)
Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi (D) President of the Senate (Vice President): None
the first woman to be a senator was Rebecca Latimer of Georgia from 1992-1945