Women in the United States Senate Women in the United States Senate There have been 52 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. Fifteen of the women who have served were appointed; seven of those were appointed to succeed their deceased husbands. As of April 9, 2018 when Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi was sworn in, the 115th United States Congress has 23 female Senators out of 100
The Woman in Red (soundtrack) used in the Ad Council and the US Department of Transportation's Drunk Driving Prevention public service announcement the following year. The album reached number four on the US "Billboard" 200 chart, #1 on the R&B Albums chart (for four weeks) and #2 on the UK Albums Chart, where it was kept off the top spot by the albums "Now That's What I Call Music 3" and David Bowie's "Tonight". As with Wonder's albums "Songs in the Key of Life" and "Hotter than July", "The Woman in Red" soundtrack reached #2 in the UK Albums Chart and to date he has