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.
Bibliography”Carol 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.

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Lest many people forget, before Obama, before Hillary,  there was Carol Moseley-Braun. Before Carol, there was Leonora Fulani, Ezola Foster, and the late, great Shirley Chisholm. Carol followed in the footsteps of Shirley Chisholm. Shirley set the standard of truth-telling and resistance to the male dominated world of politics. And like so many black women who kept their “eye on the prize” in the resistance against racist oppression, especially in the world of elections, political campaigns, candidate mud-slinging—-Carol ran on a slate that spoke for ALL Americans.

Lest WE forget.