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Asian-American Women in the US House

      Name

State

 Served

Patsy Takemoto Mink (Dem)

Hawaii 1987 - 1991

Patricia Fukuda Saiki (Rep)

Hawaii 1987 - 1991

Doris Matsui (Dem)

California 2005 - present

Mazie Hirono (Dem)

Hawaii 2007 - present

Judy Chu (Dem)

California 2009 - present
 
 

No woman of Asian or Pacific Islander descent has been elected to the US Senate. For the first time, in 2007, two women of Asian / Pacific Islander descent are serving at the same time in the US House of Representatives.

Click on the links for additional on African-American women, Latinas, and women in the US House in general.

Sources: Center for American Women in Politics, Rutgers University, Women in Congress, www.house.gov, Women in the US Congress report

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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