This person was Shirley Chisolm.
Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
Jeanette Rankin
That was Carol Mosely Braun, a Democrat from Illinois. She won the senatorial election in November 1992 and became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate. (There had already been a black woman elected to the House of Representatives-- Shirley Chisholm of New York, who was elected in 1968.)
If you are asking about the United States, it was Jeannette Rankin. She was from Montana, where women had already been given the right to vote. A Republican, she was elected in 1916, and took her seat in the House of Representatives in 1917.
Nancy Pelosi. On January 3rd, 2007, Rep. Pelosi became the first woman to rise to the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives. (She was also the first Italian-American to be elected Speaker.) Speaker Pelosi served through early 2011: after the Democrats lost the majority in the 2010 mid-term elections, she became the House Minority Leader.
Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
In 1870, Joseph Rainey (1832-1887) of South Carolina became the first black member of the US House of Representatives.
In 1916, Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, was the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Joseph Hayne rainey was the first African American elected to US House of Representatives, sworn in on December 12, 1870. He served 4 consecutive terms. Jefferson Long became the second African American elected to the US House of Representatives in 1870. He represented Georgia. He served three months as a US Representative.
That was Carol Mosely Braun, a Democrat from Illinois. She won the senatorial election in November 1992 and became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate. (There had already been a black woman elected to the House of Representatives-- Shirley Chisholm of New York, who was elected in 1968.)
If you are asking about when he became president, he was first elected in 2008. He was then re-elected in 2012. If you are asking when he was first elected to office, that was in 1996 when he became an Illinois State Senator.
Actually who you thought: Jeannette Rankin
Nancy Pelosi
She was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams