who was the first african american woman to be appointed secretary of state?  year?
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Encyclopedia of World History M On this date in 2004, Condoleezza Rice became the first African American Secretary of State in America. She was appointed by President George W. Bush The former National Security Adviser since 2001 was the second Black (after Colin Powell) and second female (after Madeleine Albright) to serve as Secretary of State. Reference: The Associated Press. permissions. 450 W. 33rd St., New York, NY 10001.
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Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm. Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman elected to Congress and an outspoken advocate for women and minorities during her seven terms in the House of Representatives.
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- Charlotta Bass was a civil rights activist who in 1912 became the first African-American woman to own and operate a newspaper in the United States and who in 1952 became the first to be nominated for Vice President of the United States.
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Shirley Chisholm Shirley Anita Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress, was elected by which state?
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History Mid Term 2 Roosevelt's secretary of labor (1993-1945); the first woman to serve as a federal Cabinet officer, she had a great influence on many New Deal programs, most significantly the Social Security Act.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton She is the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate and the first woman elected statewide in New York. Hillary Clinton served as U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. The biographies of the First Ladies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “The First Ladies of the United States of America,” by Allida Black.
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Condoleezza Rice Biography In 2001, Rice was appointed national security adviser by President George W. Bush, becoming the first black woman (and second woman) to hold the post, and went on to become the first black woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State. Early Life. Condoleezza Rice was born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama. The only child of a Presbyterian minister and a teacher, Rice grew up surrounded by racism in the segregated South. Condoleezza Rice Education
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- Shirley Chisholm, née Shirley Anita St. Hill, (born November 30, 1924, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died January 1, 2005, Ormond Beach, Florida), American politician, the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
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Condoleezza Rice Condoleezza Rice. Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American Republican politician, She was the 66th United States Secretary of State. She was the second Secretary of State under former President George W. Bush. She took over from Colin Powell on January 26, 2005, after he stepped down.
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- Clinton appointed a number of women and minorities to key government posts, including Janet Reno (1938-), who became the first female U.S. attorney general in 1993, and Madeleine Albright (1937-) , who was sworn in as the first female U.S. secretary of state in 1997.
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Black Democrats to Obama: Pick Lynch for Supreme Court Black lawmakers in Congress are urging President Obama to make history by nominating Attorney General Loretta Lynch to the Supreme Court. Lynch, if confirmed, would become the first African-American woman to serve as a justice. She would also be the first African-American appointed by a Democratic president since Thurgood Marshall, an influential liberal who retired in 1991. advertisement Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) argue the court’s only African-American justice, Clarence Thomas, who was nominated by George H.W. Bush in 1991, doesn’t represent the interests of their constituents. “I would love to see him appoint Loretta Lynch. She’s already been vetted.
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- Georgia Neese Clark Gray (January 27, 1898 – October 26, 1995) was the first woman Treasurer of the United States, serving from 1949 to 1953.[1]
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Shirley Chisholm On January 25, 1972, Chisholm announced her candidacy for the presidency, becoming the first African-American woman to do so. The 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami, Florida, became the first major convention in which any woman was considered for the presidential nomination. Chisholm did not win the nomination, but she garnered 151 of the delegates votes. Chisholm served in the House of Representatives until she retired in 1982.
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JONES, Stephanie Tubbs Stephanie Tubbs Jones won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998, becoming the first African–American woman to represent Ohio in the U.S. Congress. In the 110th Congress (2007–2009), Jones became the first African–American woman to chair a standing House committee.
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- Hattie Ophelia Caraway, née Hattie Ophelia Wyatt, (born Feb. 1, 1878, near Bakerville, Tenn., U.S.—died Dec. 21, 1950, Falls Church, Va.), American politician who became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Hattie Wyatt grew up in her native Bakerville, Tenn., and in nearby Hustburg.
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Black Herstory: 11 Black Women Who Ran for President of the United States Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress in 1968. On January 25, 1972, she became the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Famous Firsts by African Americans 1 Clarence Thomas became the second African American to serve on the Court in 1991. 2  U.S. diplomat: Ebenezer D. Bassett, 1869, became minister-resident to Haiti; Patricia Harris became the first black female ambassador (1965; Luxembourg).
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Navy Promotes Its First Female 4-Star Admiral It's the latest first for Howard, 54, who in 1999 became the first African-American woman to command a ship in the U.S. Navy after taking over the USS Rushmore. In her new capacity, she takes up the post of vice chief of Naval operations.
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- (born 1933). U.S. physician and public health official Joycelyn Elders served as U.S. surgeon general from 1993 to 1994. Elders was the first African American and the second woman to hold that post.
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List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries Harris was also the first African-American woman to serve in the Cabinet. Former North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole is the first woman to have served in two different Cabinet positions in two different administrations. She was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as Secretary of Transportation in 1983, and was the Secretary of Labor during the tenure of George H. W. Bush—Reagan's successor.
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- 1 First African American woman elected to Congress (1968). 2  First African American woman to seek a major party nomination for President of the United States (1972). 3  First woman to have her name placed in nomination for President at the Democratic National Convention.
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- Patricia Roberts Harris, 1924–85, U.S. government official, b. Mattoon, Ill. A lawyer who was active in the Democratic party, she was a law professor and dean at Howard Univ. during the 1960s and became the first African-American woman to hold a U.S. ambassadorship when she was named (1965) by President Lyndon Johnson to the embassy in Luxembourg.
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Shirley Chisholm: First Black Woman to Run For President Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was a political figure who was decades ahead of her time. As a woman and a person of color, she has a long lists of firsts to her credit, including: 1  First African American woman elected to Congress (1968). 2  First African American woman to seek a major party nomination for President of the United States (1972).
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Chisholm, Shirley (1924â) Shirley Chisholm Campaigns for Nomination. While seeking the candidacy for president of the United States in 1972, Shirley Chisholm campaigns hard, speaking to crowds across the country about her beliefs in equality for women and minorities. In 1968, Chisholm became the first African-American congresswoman.
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Andrew Johnson Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs (1827–1879). First African American to serve on the Florida Cabinet when he was chosen as Secretary of State in 1868 by Governor Harrison Reed. As superintendent of public instruction in 1873, he established the state's first public school system.
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All the President's Men: The 15 Cabinet-Level Departments Mission: Protect the health of all Americans and provide essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. Notable: Patricia R. Harris, who was secretary when the department's name changed in 1980 under Jimmy Carter, was the first African-American woman to serve in a Cabinet position.