Who was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the 2017 special election in Georgia's 6th congressional district, who was defeated by the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress from Georgia?
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Karen Handel Karen Christine Handel (née Walker; born April 18, 1962) is an American businesswoman, politician, and member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 6th congressional district. In 2017, she became the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress from Georgia after defeating Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff on June 20 in the 2017 special election to fill the vacancy in Georgia's 6th congressional district in the most expensive congressional race in American history.
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Jon Ossoff Thomas Jonathan "Jon" Ossoff (born February 16, 1987) is an American documentary filmmaker and former political aide. He was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the 2017 special election in Georgia's 6th congressional district.
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C. Ellis Black C. Ellis Black (born July 28, 1942) is an American politician. He is a member of the Georgia State Senate from the 8th District, serving since 2015. He is a member of the Republican party. Black also served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2001 to 2015.
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Kim McMillan Kim McMillan ("née" Ambrester, born 1963) is a Democratic politician who is mayor of Clarksville, Tennessee, and was the first woman in Tennessee history to be elected Majority Leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives. She was a candidate in the 2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election, but dropped out to run for mayor of Clarksville.
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Roger Bruce Roger Bruce (born May 9, 1953) is an American politician. He is a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 61st District, serving since 2002. He is a member of the Democratic party.
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Judy Manning Judy Manning (born October 24, 1942, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former member of the House of Representatives in the U.S. state of Georgia. Manning is a Republican and represented District 34, which encompasses parts of Cobb County. She is married to Aymar Manning and has two grown children and three grandchildren.
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Rhonda Nyman Rhonda Nyman is an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. She was elected as a Democrat in November 2010, succeeding her husband Robert Nyman who died in office. In the November 2014 election, she was defeated by Republican challenger David DeCoste in a close election, only conceding after the result was verified by a recount.
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Charlie Norwood Charles Whitlow "Charlie" Norwood, Jr., D.D.S. (July 27, 1941 – February 13, 2007) was an American politician and dentist, serving as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until his death in 2007. At the time of his death, Norwood was the Representative of the 10th District of Georgia.
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Niki Tsongas Nicola Dickson "Niki" Sauvage Tsongas ( ; born April 26, 1946) is an American politician and the current U.S. Representative for Massachusetts 's 3 congressional district . From 2007 to 2013 she represented Massachusetts 's 5 congressional district , the district her husband Paul Tsongas served prior to being elected to the United States Senate. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Following John Kerry's appointment as Secretary of State, she was widely expected to run in the 2013 special election for the Senate seat once held by her husband; she put such speculations to rest when she announced her endorsement of Representative Ed Markey instead.
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Dee Dawkins-Haigler Dee Dawkins-Haigler is a politician from Georgia. A Democrat, she was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives representing the state's 91st district from 2008 until 2017.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Deborah Wasserman Schultz (born September 27, 1966) is an American politician. She is the U.S. Representative for  's 23 congressional district . She is a member of the Democratic Party and was a former chairperson for the Democratic National Committee.
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Deborah Honeycutt Dr. Deborah Ann Travis "D. Ann" Honeycutt (born August 8, 1947) is an American politician and medical doctor. Honeycutt was the Republican candidate for Georgia's 13th congressional district in 2006 and 2008. She attended the 2008 Republican National Convention. In 2004, Honeycutt was President of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians and in 2005 she served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Georgian Academy.
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Stefani Carter Stefani Carter (born February 15, 1978) is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 102nd District, which included parts of Dallas, and the northern Dallas County suburbs of Garland, and Richardson, Texas. First elected in 2010, Carter made history by becoming the first Republican African-American woman to serve in the Texas House when she unseated the Democrat Carol Kent.
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Katharine Byron Katharine Edgar Byron (October 25, 1903 – December 28, 1976), a Democrat, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from May 27, 1941 to January 3, 1943. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Maryland.
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Tulsi Gabbard Tulsi Gabbard ( , born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has been the United States Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district since 2013. She was also a vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee until February 28, 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Elected in 2012, she is the first American Samoan and the first Hindu member of the United States Congress. She served in a combat zone in Iraq. Gabbard (then known as Tulsi Gabbard Tamayo) served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004, becoming at age 21 the youngest woman to be elected to a state legislature at the time.
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Mia Morris White Mia Morris White (born February 13, 1965 in Ibadan, Nigeria) is a former Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, elected to serve three consecutive terms, representing House District 18 (1996-2002). She was the first and so far only Republican and first woman elected in history of House District 18.
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Electoral history of Cynthia McKinney Electoral history of Cynthia McKinney, Democratic Representative from Georgia 11th and 4th congressional district (1993–2003, 2003–2005), and 2008 Green Party Presidential nominee.
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Donna Sheldon Donna Sheldon is an American politician from the state of Georgia. She was a Republican candidate for Georgia 's 10 congressional district to replace Paul Broun. Prior to that, she was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2002-2012.
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Georgia's 10th congressional district Georgia's 10th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia. The district is currently represented by Republican Jody Hice, and includes a large swath of urban and rural territory between Atlanta and Augusta.
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Caroline Casagrande Caroline Casagrande (born November 21, 1976) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 11th Legislative District from January 10, 2012 to January 12, 2016. Prior to the 2011 legislative redistricting, she served in the Assembly from January 8, 2008 representing the 12th District. She is the youngest woman assembly member ever elected in New Jersey. She was defeated for re-election in 2015.
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Mae Nolan Mae Ella Nolan (September 20, 1886 – July 9, 1973) was an American politician who became the fourth woman to serve in the United States Congress, the first woman elected to Congress from California, the first woman to chair a Congressional committee, and the first to fill the seat left vacant by her husband's death. She took her seat in the United States House of Representatives in 1923.
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Georgia's congressional districts Georgia is represented in the United States House of Representatives by 14 elected congressmen, each campaigning and receiving votes in only one district of the 14.