Vermont Prepares To Elect Its First Female Representative To Congress Becca balint is poised to make vermont the 50th state, the last to send its first woman to congress, after she won the democratic primary in the deep blue green mountain state this month. becca. With most of the nation’s primary elections behind us, a clearer picture of november’s midterm races are starting to take shape. vermont is now poised to sen.
Weekend Reading On Women S Representation Ranked Choice Voting Gives The 54 year old from brattleboro has served four terms in the vermont senate, including as majority leader from 2017 to 2020. a former history and social studies teacher, she was elected state. It sinking in little by little. it's very exciting. and it's also a little daunting, as you can imagine. being the first of anything is a challenge, because you want to do right by everybody. you want to make sure you represent the state well. lisa desjardins: women wield substantial power in vermont, one of the first states to elect a female. Montana in 1916 made rep. jeannette rankin the first woman elected to congress, four years before the 19th amendment secured women's constitutional right to vote. since then, nearly 400 women have. In the race for vermont’s single seat in the u.s. house, democrat becca balint could be on the verge of being elected as the first woman and first openly gay person to represent the state in.
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