Women in the United States Senate After retiring from the Senate, she married former Senator Howard Baker (R-TN). Kassebaum has the distinction of being the first female elected senator who did not succeed her husband in Congress (Margaret Chase Smith was only elected to the Senate after succeeding her husband to his House seat). At the time of her retirement in 1997, Kassebaum was the second longest serving female senator, after Smith (Since 1997 five women have had Senate careers longer than Kassebaum's). The first woman in the Senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton, who served representing Georgia for only one day in 1922. Hattie Caraway became
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