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Senate Years of Service: 1993-1999 Party: Democrat
MOSELEY BRAUN, Carol, a Senator from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., August 16, 1947;
educated in Chicago public schools; graduated, University of Illinois 1969;
graduated, University of Chicago School of Law 1972; admitted to the Illinois
bar in Chicago 1973; prosecutor, office of the United States Attorney, Chicago
1973-1977; member and assistant majority leader, Illinois house of
representatives 1978-1988; recorder of deeds, Cook County, Ill., 1988-1992;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1992, and served from
January 3, 1993, to January 3, 1999; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1998; ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, December 15, 1999-2001; candidate
for the Democratic nomination for president in 2004; entrepreneur; is a
resident of Chicago, Ill., Atlanta, Ga., and Union Springs, Ala.
BibliographyCarol Moseley Braun, in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 2006; Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk,
Black Americans in Congress, 1870–2007. Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008.
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