page_title: Women in the United States Senate
section_title: List of states represented by women
hierarchical_section_title: Women in the United States Senate / List of states represented by women
caption_attribution_description: English: This map shows which states have had/has a female senator via party
context_page_description: There have been 57 total women in the United States Senate since its establishment in 1789. The first woman who served as a U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton, represented Georgia for a single day in 1922. The first woman elected to the Senate was Hattie Caraway from Arkansas in 1932. Seventeen of the women who have served were appointed; seven of those were appointed to succeed their deceased husbands. The 116th Congress has 26 female senators, meaning for the first time in history, one-fourth of the members of the U.S. Senate are female. Of the 57 women in the U.S. Senate, 36 have been Democrats and 21 have been Republicans.
context_section_description: 32 states have been represented by female Senators, and 20 are currently represented. In 2009, North Carolina became the first state to have been represented by female Senators of both parties, and the first to have a female Senator succeeded by a female Senator from the other party. In 2011, New Hampshire became the second state to be represented by female Senators from both parties, and the first to have female Senators of both parties serving concurrently.
caption: This map shows which states have had a female senator via party.      Democrat(s)   Republican(s)   Both a Democrat and a Republican
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