Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
United States House of Representatives in 1982 United States Senate in 1992
Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
In Britain, they are the House of Lords and the House of Commons. In Canada, they are the Senate and the House of Commons.
John McCain was first elected to Congress in the House of Representatives in 1982. He won election to the Senate in 1986. You can verify this information on his senate web site biography at http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorMcCain.Biography
They are NOT government AGENCIES. The two legislative bodies that make up the US Congress are The House of Representatives, and The Senate.Government agencies are part of the Executive Branch of government.
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.)
house of representatives and the senate
house of representatives and the senate
first house of representatives, then senate
Thad Cochran is the current senior U.S. Senator from Mississippi. He was first elected to the Senate in 1978. Roger Wicker is the junior U.S. Senator from Mississippi. He was first elected to the Senate in 2007.
She was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.