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Senate Years of Service: 1992- Party: Democrat
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FEINSTEIN, Dianne, a Senator from California; born in San Francisco, Calif., June 22,
1933; attended the San Francisco public schools and graduated from the Convent
of the Sacred Heart High School 1951; graduated, Stanford University 1955;
member, California Womens Board of Terms and Parole 1960-1966; member, San
Francisco Board of Supervisors 1970-1978, serving as president 1970-1971,
1974-1975, 1978; mayor of San Francisco 1978-1988; director, Bank of California
1988-1989; co-chair, San Francisco Education Funds Permanent Fund 1988-1989;
unsuccessful candidate for Governor of California 1990; elected in a special
election on November 3, 1992, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill
the term left vacant by the resignation of Pete Wilson; took office on November
4, 1992, and took the oath of office on November 10, 1992; reelected in 1994,
2000, 2006, and again in 2012 for the term ending January 3, 2019; chair,
Committee on Rules and Administration (One Hundred Tenth Congress), Select
Committee on Intellegence (One Hundred Eleventh to One Hundred Thirteenth
Congresses).
BibliographyDianne Feinstein, 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.
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