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Political Firsts
in the 20th Century
Last updated September, 2008. |
2nd Column:
GOP / dem - either directly; served
under; or appointed by Admin. ---
Misc. - unknown, non-partisan or not applicable. |
1900-1901-1906-1907-1908-1913-1914-1915-1916-1917-1918-1919-1920-1921-1922-1924-1925-1927-1928-1931-1932-1933-1934-1935-1936-1937-1940-1941-1943-1946-1947-1948-1949-1950-1951-1953-1954-1955-1956-1958-1959-1960-1961-1962-1963-1964-1965-1966-1967-1968-1969-1970-1971-1972-1973-1974-1975-1976-1977-1978-1979-1981-1982-1983-1984-1985-1986-1987-1989-1990-1991-1992-1993-1994-1995-1996-1997-1998-1999
1600's, 1700's & 1800s
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2000s - 21st Century |
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1900 |
GOP |
Sergeant William Harvey Carney awarded for
his heroism in the Battle of Fort Wagner during the Civil War
becomes the first African-American to be awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor on May 23rd, 1900. |
1901 |
GOP |
The state of
New York on April 25th became the first state to require
automobile license plates. |
1903 |
Misc. |
Marie Curie is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize |
1907 |
Misc. |
Alain L. Locke is the
first Black American to become a Rhodes Scholar in 1907. |
1916 |
Misc. |
The first person to pass over Niagara Falls in a barrel
was, on October 24th, 1901, a school teacher from
Michigan, Annie Edison Taylor. |
1906 |
Misc. |
The earliest known record of an
Asian-Pacific Islander-American making a bid for public office was
Benjamin Chow. On the Socialist ticket in the 1st District of
Massachusetts, He received less than 4% of votes
cast. |
1907 |
GOP |
Charles Curtis becomes the first
American-Indian to serve as a U.S. Senator on January 23rd after
being elected from Kansas. He
later became U.S. Vice President under Herbert Hoover. |
1907 |
GOP |
The first forced sterilization law is passed
in
Indiana
on March 9th.
Washington
State follows with the same legislation two years later. |
1907 |
GOP |
The first official trip by a U.S. President
outside the United States was
when President Theodore Roosevelt
visited Panama to inspect the construction of the Panama Canal
on November 9th. |
1908 |
Misc. |
The first woman elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Letters was Julia Ward Howe, author of "The
Battle Hymn of the Republic." |
1908 |
Misc. |
Grafton, West
Virginia and Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania are the first to celebrate Mother's Day in the
United States. |
1913 |
Misc. |
Prizes are included in Cracker Jack boxes for
the first time. |
1913 |
dem |
The 16th Amendment to the
Constitution is ratified, providing for the federal income tax. |
1913 |
Misc. |
The first electric traffic
light is installed on August 5th in Cleveland,
Ohio. |
1914 |
dem |
Idaho elects the nation's first Jewish governor, Moses
Alexander. |
1915 |
Misc. |
The first stop sign is placed
at an intersection in Detroit,
Michigan. |
1916 |
dem |
Louisville,
Kentucky native, Louis D. Brandeis
becomes the first Jew to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court on
January 28th. |
1916 |
dem |
The first air combat mission ever conducted
was on March 19th when 8 U.S. planes fly in pursuit of Panco
Villa who had attacked Americans in
New Mexico retreating to
Mexico. |
1917 |
GOP |
Jeanette Rankin, Republican, begins serving as the first U.S. Congresswoman
in 1917. She was elected to the
U.S. House from Montana in 1916; four years before women had the right
to vote. |
1918 |
dem |
"The Stars and Stripes"
newspaper is published for the first time in 1918. |
1918 |
dem |
President Woodrow Wilson is the first U.S. President to travel
to Europe while in office. He sailed to France for the Paris Peace
Conference on December 4th. |
1918 |
Misc. |
The first woman to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps was Opha M.
Johnson in 1918. |
1919 |
Misc. |
Oregon becomes the first state to levy a gasoline tax on
February 25th. That first gas tax was 1 cent per gallon. |
1920 |
Misc. |
Mrs. Marie Ruoff Byrum becomes
the first woman since 1807, to vote, just 5 days after the 19th
Amendment was signed into law. In a special election to
fill the seat of a resigning alderman Mrs. Byrum cast her vote
in the 1st ward of Hannibal,
Missouri. She was the very first woman to vote in
Missouri. |
1920 |
Misc. |
The Democrat House
members in 1920 were first to elect among themselves floor
leaders while in the minority. |
1920 |
Misc. |
Women vote in the first national U.S. election,
under the 19th Amendment, on
November 2nd. Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox to become
President. |
1920 |
GOP |
Katherine Gudger
Langley becomes the first chairman of the Republican State Central
Committee of Kentucky.
See 1927. |
1920 |
Misc. |
The first broadcast of results
of a U.S. Presidential election was also the first broadcast by
the first commercial radio station. KDKA AM in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania was own by
Westinghouse. |
1921 |
GOP |
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback is the first African-American U.S. state governor. He
became Louisiana's governor when his predecessor was impeached. PBS Pinchback served as a Republican governor for one month. |
1921 |
dem |
The first woman south of the
Mason-Dixon line to be elected to a state legislature is Mary Elliott
Flanery of Boyd County when she is elected to the
Kentucky House of Representatives. |
1921 |
Misc. |
The first Black American
women to earn Ph.D. degrees were in 1921. They are Sadie Tanner Mossell
Alexander, University of Pennsylvania; Eva Beatrice Dykes, Radcliffe
College; and Georgiana Simpson, University of Chicago. |
1922 |
dem |
Rebecca Latimer Felton, of Georgia, was the first woman to serve in the
U.S. Senate, when appointed and sworn in on November 21st to fill the remainder of a term vacated by
the death of her predecessor. Felton holds two other distinctions;
having the shortest service of just one day, resigning the day after
being appointed, and being the oldest to
begin service at 87 years of age. |
1922 |
GOP |
President
Warren G. Harding
installs the first radio into the White House on February 8th. |
1922 |
Misc. |
The United States Postal Services
begins the first transcontinental air mail route on February 22nd. |
1924 |
Misc. |
The
Nevada State Prison in Carson City,
Nevada is the site of the first
execution in the United States that was performed in the "Gas Chamber". |
1924 |
dem |
Nellie Taylor Ross is the first woman elected to be a U.S. State
Governor. Her husband, William Bradford Ross,
Wyoming governor, died on October
2nd. She was nominated to the Democrat ticket for governor, then
elected on November 4th to take office on January 5th 1925.
See 1933. |
1924 |
GOP |
The first Presidential speech on
radio and first from the Whitehouse was delivered on February 22nd by
President Calvin Coolidge. |
1925 |
GOP |
The first presidential inauguration to be
broadcast on radio was on March 4th when
Calvin Coolidge takes
the oath of office. |
1925 |
dem |
Nellie Taylor Ross in Wyoming becomes
America's first woman Governor, succeeding her husband, William Bradford
Ross.
See 1924, 1933. |
1925 |
GOP |
The Republican House
members as the majority party in 1925 were first to designate a Majority
Leader, Charles Curtis. |
1925 |
GOP |
Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican from Massachusetts, is the first woman
from New England to serve in the U. S. House of Representatives. She was the longest
serving woman in House. She introduced the GI Bill of Rights. |
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1927 |
GOP |
The Federal Radio Commission
regulates the use of radio frequencies for the first time beginning
February 23rd. The commission later becomes the FCC (Federal
Communications Commission). |
1927 |
Misc. |
The first transmission of a government
official was the image of Commerce Secretary Hoover in April
when Bell Telephone Company demonstrates the first successful
long distance demonstration of Television. |
1927 |
dem |
William Heen is the first
Chinese Asian-American to serve in the Hawaii Territorial House of
Representatives. |
1927 |
GOP |
Kentucky's first U.S. Congresswoman,
Katherine Gudger Langley, begins to serve on March 4th. See also
1920. |
1928 |
dem |
Florida's first U.S. Congresswoman was Ruth Bryan Owen; one of three
women, all named Ruth, that were elected to Congress in 1928.
See 1933. |
1928 |
dem |
Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo of New Mexico becomes the first Hispanic Senator in U.S. History. |
1928 |
Misc. |
Kathleen Mulligan becomes
Kentucky’s first woman judge when
appointed as a Lexington municipal judge. She later becomes the
first woman vice-president of the
Kentucky Bar Association. |
1928 |
GOP |
From
Illinois, Oscar DePriest became the first African American from a
northern state to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives 71st
Congress, in 1928. |
1931 |
dem |
Hattie Caraway from Arkansas is the first woman to have succeeded her husband in the
Senate and subsequently the first woman elected to a six year Senate term
in 1932. |
1932 |
dem |
On January 12th Hattie Wyatt Caraway of
Arkansas is the first woman to have been elected to a six year Senate term,
but only after having served being appointed the previous term. |
1932 |
Misc. |
Wisconsin is the first
state to enact an unemployment-compensation law in 1932. |
1933 |
dem |
Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints Frances Perkins as secretary of labor on
March 4th, making her
the first woman cabinet member. |
1933 |
dem |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Ruth Bryan Owen, the first
woman, as Minister to Denmark (One rank lower than Ambassador).
See 1928 |
1933 |
dem |
FDR
appoints Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming the first woman director of the U.S. Mint,
on May 3rd.
See 1924. |
1934 |
com |
Karl Hama running on the
Communist Party ticket is the first Asian-American to make a bid for the
22nd State Assembly Seat, in San Francisco,
California. |
1934 |
dem |
Franklin D. Roosevelt
makes his first visit to Hawaii; Kailua-Kona on July 25 and Honolulu on
July 27. |
1934 |
Misc. |
The first American woman to serve as director of a
major Corporation is Lettie Pate Whitehead of the Coca-Cola Company.
|
1935 |
dem |
Mary McLeod Bethune served as an advisor on African-American affairs to
four presidents. She was the first Black woman to such a high office in
the federal government. |
1935 |
dem |
The longest speech on the U.S. Senate record
was, on June 12th taking 15 1/2 hours consisting of 150,000
words, by Huey Long of Louisiana. |
1935 |
GOP |
The first woman to hold a committee
chair was Republican Representative Mary Livermore Norris Barrows, of
Melrose, Massachusetts, when she chaired the Committee on Pensions and
Old Age Assistance in 1935. |
1936 |
dem |
A flag for the office of Vice
President is authorized by the signature of
Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
1937 |
dem |
Elaine Edwards was the first woman appointed to the Senate, by her
husband, Gov. Edwin Edwards, to fill the vacated position left open by
the death of
Louisiana
Senator Allen Ellender. |
1937 |
dem |
Nell Scott becomes
Alaska's first woman legislator
when elected to the
Alaska Territorial Legislature. |
1936 |
Misc. |
George Gallup's first national poll was taken in 1936
beginning the use of random samples and scientific formulas. |
1940 |
dem |
The first Social Security Checks totalling to
$75,000 are issued by the United States government on January 30th. |
1940 |
Misc |
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., becomes the first black general in the U. S.
Army. |
1941 |
dem |
The Presidential inauguration of
1941 is of the first and last person elected to three terms as President
of the United States,
Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
1941 |
Misc |
Wounded on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Lt. Annie
G. Fox became the first woman to receive the Purple Heart. |
1943 |
dem |
The first president to travel by
airplane while in office was
Franklin D. Roosevelt
on January 14th, traveling from Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston
Churchill to discuss the war. |
1943 |
dem |
Uilliam Dawson becomes the first Black democratic party
vice-presidential candidate. |
1943 |
Misc |
Colonel Young Oak Kim (Korean-American) is the first Asian
American to command a combat battalion. Kim is the most
highly decorated Asian American Soldier, to date. |
1943 |
Misc |
Wilbur Carl Sze is the first Chinese-American to be commissioned
an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. |
1943 |
Misc. |
The Pentagon in Arlington
Virginia is dedicated on
January 15th. The Pentagon was the largest office building
in the world. |
1943 |
Misc. |
Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. Wau Kau
Kong was the first Chinese American fighter pilot. From 1943 to 1944 he
flew 14 missions over Germany. He was shot down and died on February 22,
1944. |
1943 |
Misc. |
For actions as an air evac nurse the Navy Marine Corps Medal was awarded
to the first woman, Lt. Elsie S. Ott in 1943. |
1944 |
Misc. |
The first Chinese American to
receive the Congressional Medal of Honor was Francis Brown Wai. Captain
in the U.S. Army in 1944. |
1945 |
Misc. |
The first U.S. Army Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman was
in 1945 to Colonel Oveta C. Hobby also the first director of the WAC's.
Hobby had a WAC hat named after her, the Hobby Hat.
See 1953. |
1945 |
Misc. |
Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first civilian woman to receive the
Distinguished Service Medal in 1945 for her organization and command of
the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs). |
1946 |
Misc. |
Wing F. Ong, is the first Asian-Pacific Islander-American
to be elected to the Arizona House
of Representatives.
See 1958 |
1947 |
Misc. |
A session of the United States Congress is televised
for the first time on January 3rd. |
1947 |
Misc. |
The first African-American news
correspondent allowed entry to the House and Senate press gallery was
Percival Prattis. |
1948 |
GOP |
Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine,
becomes the first woman to have served in both the U.S. House and
Senate, when elected Senator in 1948, also as the first woman elected to
the U.S. Senate without first having been appointed to the prior term. She also holds the record of a 24 year service in the Senate.
Smith became chair of the Senate Republican Conference in 1967.
See 1950
and
1964 |
1948 |
dem |
Democrat President
Harry S. Truman issued the
first peacetime military draft in the U.S., on July 20th, based
on increasing tensions with the Soviet Union. |
1949 |
dem |
The first woman elected to the
Kentucky Senate is Carolyn C. Moore. |
1950 |
dem |
Harry S. Truman appoints Edith Sampson as the first Black American
delegate to the United Nations. |
1950 |
GOP |
Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine,
becomes the first Senator on June 1st, 1950
to
denounce Joseph McCarthy's tactics in his crusade against communism.
See 1948 and 1964. |
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1951 |
Misc. |
The first United States
National Monument honoring an African-American was revealed on
July 4th in Joplin, Missouri
to honor George Washington Carver. |
1953 |
Misc. |
Oveta Culp Hobby is the first woman to serve as
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare when the department was
renamed from the Federal Security Agency, being elevated to to a cabinet
position by President Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
See 1945. |
1953 |
GOP |
Jane Morrow Spaulding as Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare is the first black woman in a sub-cabinet position. |
1953 |
GOP |
Clare Booth Luce is appointed U.S. Ambassador to Italy. She is the first
woman to hold a high-ranking position in the U.S. diplomatic corps. |
1953 |
Misc. |
The first literature censorship
board in the United States was approved on February 19th in the state of
Georgia. |
1953 |
Misc. |
The first woman to break the sound barrier was
Jacqueline (Jackie) Cochran in 1953 in a Canadian-built F-86 Sabrejet..
Cochran accomplished four other firsts as well. She was the first woman
to take flight from an aircraft carrier, the first woman to reach the
speed of Mach 2, first pilot
to have made a blind instrument landing and the first woman ever
inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame. |
1953 |
Misc. |
The first woman tested to be an astronaut in America is
Jerrie Cobb. NASA canceled the women's program in 1963, it would not be
until 1983 that a woman is sent to space. |
1953 |
Misc. |
The first time a
Medal of Honor citation is award but is classified as "Top Secret" was
on November 4th, 1953. Corporal Hiroshi H. Miyamura Killed 10
enemy in bayonet combat then administered first aid to the wounded then
in a following attack he manned a machine gun killing 50 of the enemy
before being wounded and running out of ammunition, he continued a
fierce fight until his position was overrun. He was last seen fighting
against an overwhelming force. He was captured and survived. His
Medal of Honor was kept secret so as to prevent the enemy discovering
his heroic deeds against their comrades. |
1953 |
Misc. |
For Actions of heroism the Marine Corps Medal was
awarded to the first woman, Barbara O. Barnwell |
1954 |
Misc. |
A U.S. cabinet session is televised for the first time
on October 25, 1954. At the special meeting of
Eisenhower's cabinet all members
except for Vice President Richard M.
Nixon were present. |
1955 |
dem |
Ella T. Grasso became the first woman to be elected floor leader in the
Connecticut House of Representatives. Serving from 1953 untill 1957.
See 1974. |
1955 |
GOP |
E.
Frederic Morrow Becomes the first Black named to an executive position
in the White House. He was the administrative aide to President
Eisenhower. |
1955 |
GOP |
Peter Aduja becomes the first Filipino-American to serve in a political
office, when elected a member of Hawaii's Territorial House of
Representatives. |
1955 |
Misc. |
Rosa Parks, on December 1, 1955
refuses to give up her seat for a white man on a bus in Montgomery,
Alabama. Her arrest for the act launches a city-wide bus boycott that
last over a year. Rosa Parks becomes a prominent civil rights activist
with the NAACP; National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People. |
1956 |
dem |
Dalip Singh Saund from California is the first Asian-Indian-American
elected to the U.S. Congress.
See 2004 |
1958 |
Misc. |
Wing F. Ong is the first
Asian-American elected to the Arizona Senate.
See 1946 |
1959 |
GOP |
Hawaii's first U.S. Senator Hiram Fong was the first
Chinese-American elected to the U.S. Senate. |
1959 |
dem |
The first
Japanese-American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives is Daniel
Inouye, of Hawaii, when he takes office on August 21, 1959. Inouye was
Hawaii's first State Representative and is a recipient of the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
See 1962 |
1959 |
Misc. |
Delbert Wong is the first Chinese-American to be
appointed as a judge within the 48 continental states. Judge Wong
was appointed by California
Governor Edmund G. Brown to the Los Angeles Municipal Court in 1959.
Wong was also the first Chinese-American Graduate of Stanford University
Law School and the first Chinese-American
California Deputy Legislative
Counsel. |
1960 |
Dem |
Henry D. Irwin becomes the first Presidential Elector
to publicly attempt to urge other electors to cast their vote for
another candidate. After the November election, Irwin sent a telegram to
the 218 Republican Electors urging them to cast their vote for Henry F.
Byrd as President and Barry Goldwater as Vice president. "Would you
consider Byrd President, Goldwater Vice President, or wire any
acceptable substitute." - telegram from Henry D. Irwin. |
1960 |
Misc. |
France exploded its first
atomic bomb in 1960. |
1961 |
dem |
The first Black woman elected to the
Kentucky state legislature is Amelia
M. Tucker. |
1961 |
dem |
Andrew Hatcher becomes the first Black Associate Press Secretary to
President-elect J. F. Kennedy. |
1961 |
dem |
President
John
F. Kennedy delivers, from
Washington D.C. the first Live presidential TV news conference. |
1961 |
dem |
John
F. Kennedy appoints Janet
G. Travell on January 26th, making her the first woman to be Physician
to the President. |
1962 |
dem |
State Senator Benjamin Menor is the first Filipino-American to
serve in a U.S. legislature when elected to the
Hawaii Senate.
See 1974 |
1962 |
Misc. |
Wing Luke (Chinese-American) is the first Asian-American to become a
political office holder in the Pacific Northwest when elected to the
Seattle City Council in Washington
State. |
1962 |
dem |
Daniel Ken Inouye of
Hawaii takes office in 1959 becoming the first Japanese-American to
serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Inouye is the third highest ranking member of the U.S. Senate as of
2006.
See 1959 |
1962 |
dem |
Appointed by Hawaii Governor John A. Burns to the directorship of the
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Alfredo Lareta became the
first Filipino-American to hold a state cabinet position in the United
States. |
1962 |
dem |
Alfred H. Song (Korean-American &
Hawaiian born) is the first Asian-American elected to the
California
Assembly. |
1962 |
Misc. |
Samuel L. Gravely is the first Black to become an Admiral in the US
Navy, 1962. |
1962 |
dem |
US Senate Majority Leader Mike
Mansfield, on December 2nd, is the first elected official to
make a public comment on the progress of the Vietnam war that was not
optimistic. |
1963 |
dem |
In
Hawaii, Helen Hale is the first woman elected chairman of a county in
that state. |
1964 |
dem |
Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first
Asian-American U.S. Congresswoman when elected to the House from
Hawaii. |
1964 |
GOP |
Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine,
becomes the first woman in 1964 to be named as a presidential candidate
of either of the two major parties. Smith, running in several Republican
Primaries that took her candidacy to the Republican National Convention
in San Francisco, came in second to Barry Goldwater.
See 1948 and
1950. |
1965 |
dem |
Patricia Roberts Harris becomes the first African-American woman in 1965
to be assigned
a U.S. Ambassadorship when assigned as Ambassador to Luxembourg.
See 1977 |
1965 |
dem |
In 1965,
Hawaii elected Patsy Takemoto Mink,
the first Asian-American woman, to the U.S. Congress and kept her in the
service of that position for 24 years. |
1966 |
dem |
Kentucky in 1966 becomes the first Southern state to pass a comprehensive
civil rights law. |
1966 |
dem |
Andrew F. Brimmer began an eight-and-a-half year term as the first Black
on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. |
1966 |
dem |
Robert C. Weaver is the first Black cabinet member on January 13th, when he becomes
Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs in the
Johnson Administration. |
1966 |
Misc. |
Kentucky was the first state
in the south to pass a major civil rights law. |
1966 |
Misc. |
In Alabama, Sheriff
Lucius D. Amerson was the first Black since Reconstruction to be elected
Sheriff in the south. |
1966 |
GOP |
Edward W Brooke is the first Black U.S. Senator in 85 years when elected
as a Republican from Massachusetts. He
was the first since Reconstruction. |
1967 |
dem |
Thurgood Marshall is the first Black sworn in as Associate Justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court on June 13th. |
1967 |
dem |
Carl B. Stokes, a Democrat, was elected the first black mayor of a major
city when 5 days after the election was inaugurated mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
on November 13, 1967.. |
1967 |
dem. |
Robert H. Lawrence, Jr.
was the first Black American Astronaut. He died in a plane crash while
on a training flight, before being assigned a mission to space. |
1967 |
dem |
Georgia Montgomery Powers
is the first Black to be elected to the
Kentucky State Senate. |
1967 |
GOP |
1967 Louie B. Nunn is
elected governor of
Kentucky;
the first Republican in twenty-four years and the last until 2004. |
1968 |
Misc. |
The first 9-1-1 emergency phone system begins
operation on February 16th in Haleyville,
Alabama. |
1968 |
dem |
Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Mae
Watson is the first Woman and the first Black to hold the position. |
1968 |
dem |
Shirley Chisholm, a democrat from New York, is the first Black woman
elected to the U.S. Congress. |
1968 |
dem |
The first Black and first woman
to serve in the Kentucky
Senate was Georgia M. Davis Powers. She was the mistress to Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. at the time of his assassination. |
1969 |
dem |
Lawrence Douglas L. Wilder became the first black Senator in the
Virginia
General Assembly since Reconstruction.
See 1986, 1990. |
1969 |
dem |
Mary Jo Kopechne, an aide to Senator Edward
M. Kennedy, is drowned when the Senator, driving without a
license, drives off a wooden bridge at Chappaquiddick Island on
July 18th. The Senator does not report the incident until 10
days later. His avoided manslaughter charges and was charged for
only failing to report an accident involving injury receiving a
Suspended Sentence. |
1969 |
dem |
"Unbought and unbossed" is the
slogan used by Shirley Chisholm of New
York who becomes the first African-American to serve in the U.S.
House of Representatives. She served for 14 years.
See 1972 |
1970 |
Misc. |
The first Black mayor of Newark, New
Jersey was Kenneth Gibson taking office on June 16th.
See 1976. |
1971 |
dem |
Norman Y. Mineta, of
San Jose, California, was the first
Asian and Japanese-American to be mayor of a major U.S. mainland city.
See 2000,
2001 |
1971 |
GOP |
Herbert Choy (Korean-American) is the first Asian-Pacific-American and
first citizen from Hawaii appointed judge to a federal Court of Appeals.
Choy was the first Korean to practice law in the U.S. |
1972 |
dem |
Shirley Chisholm is the first woman considered as a candidate for
President at a major party convention
See 1969. Chisholm co-founded the National
Organization for Women (NOW). |
1972 |
Lib |
Tonie Nathan
becomes the first woman to receive an electoral vote, when Roger MacBride,
of
Virginia
, who had been pledged to
Nixon and Agnew, cast his vote for the Libertarian Party's John Hospers
and Tonie Nathan. |
1972 |
dem |
Barbara Jordan, from Texas, is the first black woman elected to Congress
from the Southern states. |
1973 |
GOP |
Vice President
Spiro T. Agnew is the first to
resign from that office. |
1973 |
Misc. |
Thomas Bradley is first Black elected mayor of Los Angeles,
California. |
1973 |
MIsc. |
George Chin was the first Chinese-American to be
appointed to the (California)
San Francisco Board of Supervisors. |
1973 |
Misc. |
George Roh is the first Korean-American to be
elected to the Berkeley School Board in
California. |
1973 |
Misc. |
Paul Bannai is the First Japanese-American to
serve on the
California
State Assembly in 1973. |
1973 |
Misc. |
Maynard H. Jackson is the first Black to be elected mayor of a major
southern city; Atlanta,
Georgia. |
1974 |
GOP |
President
Richard Nixon is the first to resign from
our nation's highest office. |
1974 |
dem |
The first Vietnam War Veteran is
elected to the United States Congress in 1974 when John Murtha becomes a
U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania. |
1974 |
GOP |
Gerald R. Ford becomes the first President not elected into the
Administration. |
1974 |
Unkn |
Thelma Garcia Bucholdt (Filipino-American) was the first Asian-American
elected to the Alaska State
Legislature and the first Asian-American in the U.S. to win in a
predominantly white district. |
1974 |
dem |
Ella Grasso of Connecticut is the first woman elected to a
governorship.
See 1955. |
1974 |
dem |
Benjamin Menor was the first Filipino-American in a state's highest
judiciary office when appointed to the Hawaii State Supreme Court.
See 1962. |
1974 |
dem |
Hawaii Governor George Ryoichi Ariyoshi was the first
Asian and Japanese-American
to obtain a U.S. Governorship. He served until 1986. |
1974 |
GOP |
Barbara W. Hancock was the first Black woman named a White House fellow. |
1975 |
dem |
Convinced to run by the
Governor John A Burns, Benjamin J. Cayetano wins a seat in the
Hawaii State Legislature in 1975,
despite his doubts of winning in a white and Japanese American dominated
district. |
1975 |
dem |
On January 8th the first woman to become a U.S.
Governor without succeeding her husband was Ella Tambussi Grasso who was
elected Governor of Connecticut in 1975. |
1975 |
dem |
Kentucky's
first woman lieutenant governor is Thelma Stovall. She serves
until 1979. |
1975 |
Misc. |
Eduardo E. Malapit becomes the first Filipino-American mayor in the U.S.
when elected Mayor of Kauai, Hawaii. |
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1976 |
Misc. |
New York's Mayor Kenneth Gibson becomes the 1st black president
of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
See 1970. |
1976 |
GOP |
At
the Republican National Convention, Mary Louis Smith, chair of the
Republican National Committee, is the first woman to organize and call
to order a major US political party convention. |
1977 |
dem |
Patricia Roberts Harris becomes the first African American woman to
serve in a cabinet post when appointed, in 1977 by
President Jimmy Carter, as
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (Health and Human Services
after 1980).
see 1965 |
1977 |
dem |
Clifford Alexander Jr. is the first Black American to be Secretary of
the U.S. Army; confirmed on February 11th, 1977. |
1977 |
dem |
Andrew Young becomes the
first Black American to serve as U.S. Representative to the U.N. (1877 -
1979 |
1978 |
dem |
California's Dianne Feinstein becomes San
Francisco's first woman mayor On December 4th. |
1978 |
dem |
Jean King was the first woman
lieutenant governor of
Hawaii. |
1978 |
dem |
The Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcasted on radio for
the first time on February 8th. |
1979 |
Misc. |
Dolores Sibonga is the first Filipino-American to
pass the Washington State Bar Exam and
will become the first minority woman to serve on the Seattle City
Council. |
1979 |
GOP |
Nancy Landon Kassebaum, from Kansas, was the first woman elected to the
Senate without first having served in the House or having served an
unexpired senate term. |
1980 |
soc. |
David McReynolds becomes the first openly gay man to
run for president when nominated by the Socialist Party U.S.A. |
1981 |
GOP |
President Ronald
Reagan appoints
Sandra Day O'Connor as the first woman to serve on the U.S.
Supreme Court. |
1981 |
GOP |
Paula Hawkins of
Florida was the first woman without
family connections to win an election to the U.S. Senate. She served one
term from 1981 until 1987. She was also known as the Senate's fastest
reader. |
1982 |
Misc. |
Eileen R. Anderson becomes the
first woman mayor of Honolulu,
Hawaii, defeating Frank F. Fasi. |
1982 |
Misc. |
Lee
P. Brown is the first Black named police commissioner of Houston,
Texas. |
1983 |
GOP |
President Ronald
Reagan establishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 20, as a
federal holiday. |
1983 |
dem |
Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins
is the first woman of the South to be elected to a governorship.
See 1984. |
1983 |
GOP |
Dr. Sally Ride was the first American woman in space as
a crew member of the Challenger (STS-7) in 1983. |
1983 |
GOP |
Lt.
Col. Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first Black American astronaut
to serve a mission in space. |
1984 |
dem |
Geraldine Ferraro, democrat, was the first woman chosen as a running mate for
a major party ticket. |
1984 |
dem |
Nydia Velázquez is the first Puerto
Rican-American to Serve on the New
York City Council.
See 1992, 1998 |
1984 |
dem |
Kentucky Governor Martha
Layne Collins is the first woman to Chair a Democrat National Convention
See 1983. |
1984 |
dem |
Herbert Young Cho Choy is the first
Korean-American to become a lawyer and becomes the first person from
Hawaii to
serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit. |
1984 |
dem |
Shanghai born Professor Shien Biau Woo becomes the first
Asian-Pacific Islander-American elected as a state official east of the
Mississippi River when elected Lieutenant Governor of
Delaware. |
1984 |
Misc. |
Major General John Liu Fugh is the first
Chinese-American promoted to a General rank status. |
1985 |
dem |
Irene Natividad (Filipino-American) was the first Asian-American woman
to head a national political women's organization (National Women's
Political Caucus) |
1985 |
dem |
In California
Michael Woo is the first Asian-Pacific-American to serve on the Los
Angeles City Council. |
1985 |
GOP |
David
Mercado
Valderrama was the first
Filipino-American to become a probate judge in the United States.
See 1991. |
1985 |
GOP |
David L. Chew is the first
Asian American to hold the Presidential Cabinet position of Deputy
Assistant to the President when appointed by
President Reagan
on January 30, 1985. |
1985 |
GOP |
Astronaut Ellison Onizuka (Japanese-American) is the first
Asian-American to travel into space. |
1986 |
GOP |
During the administration of
Ronald Reagan a bronze bust of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. is the first of any Black American to be placed in the
halls of Congress. |
1986 |
GOP |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed as a holiday for the first
time to honor the slain civil rights leader. |
1986 |
GOP |
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Cubin-American), from
Florida, becomes the first
Hispanic and Cuba born woman elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives. Becoming the Chair of the Africa Subcommittee makes
Ros-Lehtinen the first Hispanic woman to chair a House subcommittee. |
1986 |
Misc. |
On February 27th the U.S. Senate, on a trial basis,
allows the televising of the Senate debates. |
1986 |
dem |
The first Black lieutenant-Governor
since the Civil War is Douglas L. Wilder in
Virginia.
See
1969, 1990. |
1986 |
dem |
Hawaii's John Waihee is the first
elected state governor of Hawaiian ancestry. |
1986 |
Misc. |
Larry Wu-tai Chin kills himself in
his Virginia jail cell on February
21st after being found guilty of spying for China. Chin is the first
American found guilty as a spy for China. |
1987 |
GOP |
Under President Ronald Regan, General Colin Powell becomes the first
black to be National Security Advisor. |
1987 |
GOP |
Joy
Cherian (South Asian-American) is the first Asian-American appointed to
the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. |
1987 |
dem |
Benjamin J. Cayetano, of Hawaii,
becomes the first Filipino-American and second Asian-American elected
Lieutenant Governor of a state in the U.S.
See 1994. |
1987 |
GOP |
Patricia Fukada Saiki was the first Asian-Pacific
Islander-American Republican woman to serve in Congress. A
Representative from Hawaii she serves
until 1991. |
1987 |
Misc. |
In California, Warren Furutani
is the first Asian-Pacific Islander-American to be elected to the Los
Angeles Unified School District Board of Education in 1987 |
1987 |
GOP |
Frederick Drew Gregory is the first Black to become a commander of a
space shuttle. |
1987 |
GOP |
Pennsylvania
politician R. Budd Dwyer, in a press conference claiming innocence on
bribery charges, commits suicide on national television on January 22nd,
the day before he was to be sentenced. |
1989 |
GOP |
Under President George H. W. Bush, General Colin L. Powell becomes the
first Black named as Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of
Staff. |
1989 |
GOP |
President George H. W. Bush names the first Black Woman, Condolezza
Rice, director of Soviet and East European affairs on the National
Security Council. She was later promoted to senior director of Soviet
and East European Affairs. Rice was later named a special assistant to
the president for national security affairs. |
1989 |
GOP |
The
first Asian-American ambassador in the history of the U.S. Diplomatic
Core is Julia Chang Bloch (Chinese-American). She was Ambassador the
Kingdom of Nepal. |
1989 |
dem |
David Dinkins on November 7th
becomes the first Black elected Mayor of New York City,
New York. |
1989 |
GOP |
Urvashi Vaid (South Asian-American) is the first lesbian of color to
became Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. |
1989 |
GOP |
President George H. W. Bush names Antonia Coello Novello, the first
Hispanic and woman, as U.S. Surgeon General. |
1989 |
dem |
Ron Brown was elected chairman
of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first black to head a
major U.S. political party. |
1990 |
dem |
Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder was the first Black
American
elected to a U.S.
governorship.
See 1872, 1969, 1986. |
1990 |
Misc. |
(Pete) Agapito Diaz Fajardo is the first
Filipino-American elected to a City Council position on the U.S.
mainland when elected in California
to the Carson City Council.
See 1997. |
1990 |
dem |
Daniel K. Akaka, of Hawaii, is the
first of Hawaiian ancestry to serve in the U.S.
Congress. |
1990 |
GOP |
Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli (Asian-Indian-American) is the first
Asian-American and first Muslim appointed delegate for the U.S. to the
United Nations. |
1990 |
dem |
Kumar P. Barve is the first Asian-Indian-American to be elected to a
state legislature in the United States when he begins serving in the
Maryland House of Delegates. |
1990 |
dem |
Jon Amores is the first Asian-Pacific
Islander-American elected as a West
Virginia State Representative. |
1990 |
dem. |
Larry Echohawk is the
first Native American-Indian to hold a statewide office when elected
Idaho's office of attorney general. |
1990 |
Misc. |
Carole Gist is the first Black to be crowned Miss USA. |
1991 |
GOP |
Clarence Thomas is appointed becoming the youngest member in the history of the U. S. Supreme
Court. |
1991 |
GOP |
General Colin L. Powell becomes the first Black to be named Secretary of
State. |
1991 |
Misc. |
Gene Canque Liddell became the first Filipino-American woman to become
mayor of a U.S. city when elected mayor by the City Council of Lacey
City; a Seattle, Washington
suburb. |
1991 |
Misc. |
Irene Natividad is the first Asian-Pacific
Islander-American to head a national women's bipartisan organization
when she chairs the National Women's Political Caucus. |
1991 |
Misc. |
The first Black woman elected mayor of a large
important city is Sharon Pratt Dixon when on January 2nd she is sworn in
as mayor of Washington, D.C. |
1991 |
dem |
David Mercado Valderrama becomes the first Filipino-American elected to
a state legislature in the 48 contiguous United States. Valderrama
served Prince George's County in Maryland.
See 1985. |
1992 |
GOP |
George H. W. Bush is the
first United States President to address the Australian
Parliament on January 1st, 1992. |
1992 |
dem |
Nydia Velázquez of New York State (12th Distr.) was the first
Puerto
Rican-American woman elected to the U.S. House.
See 1984, 1998. |
1992 |
dem |
Linda Copple Trout becomes the first woman on the
Idaho Supreme Court
when appointed by Gov. Cecil Andrus.
See 1997. |
1992 |
dem |
Keeping a campaign promise
North Dakota Senator Kent
Conrad does not run for re-election but in a Special Election is
elected to the other Senate position making him the only U.S.
Senator to have held two seats on the same day, December 5th,
when he resigns one seat to be sworn into the other. |
1992 |
dem |
Lucille Roybal-Allard from California is the first Mexican-American
woman elected to the U. S. House. |
1992 |
dem |
Washington State Representative Velma Veloria (Filipino-American) was
the first Asian-American elected to a state legislature in the 48
contiguous United States. |
1992 |
dem |
Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois is the first Black woman elected to the
United States Senate. |
1992 |
dem |
Ron
Brown is the first Black named to the executive post of U.S. Commerce
Secretary. |
1992 |
Misc. |
Tony Lam becomes the first Vietnamese
American to be elected in the United States when elected to the
Westminister, California city council. |
1992 |
GOP |
Jay C. Kim is the first Korean-American to become
a California member of the U.S.
Congress. |
1992 |
Misc. |
Choua Lee is the first Hmong elected to public
office when she becomes a Board member of the St. Paul School District
in Minnesota. |
1992 |
Misc. |
The first Vietnamese-American elected to public
office in the U.S. is Tony Lam when he joins the City Council of
Westminster, California. |
1992 |
dem |
Cheryl Ann Lau is the first Asian-Pacific
Islander-American to be elected as Nevada's
Secretary of State. |
1992 |
GOP |
As
a member of the space shuttle Endeavor crew, Mae C. Jemison becomes the
first Black American woman in space on September 12, 1992. |
1993 |
dem |
Janet Reno becomes the first woman
U.S. Attorney General on March 11th. |
1993 |
GOP |
Marha J. Wong (Chinese-American) is the first
Asian-American elected to the Houston,
Texas, City Council.
See 2003. |
1993 |
dem |
Gary Locke (Chinese-American) is the first Asian-American to head a
county (King County, Washington) government in the 48 contiguous United States.
See 1996. |
1993 |
dem |
Paull Shin is the first Korean-American in
Washington
State to be a legislator when elected to the House of Representatives.
See 1998. |
1993 |
Misc. |
Richard Riordan is the first
Asian-American Mayor of Los Angeles,
California. |
1993 |
dem |
Joycelyn Elders is the first black and first woman to be named United
States Surgeon General. |
1993 |
dem |
Arati Prabhakar (South-Asian-American) is the first Asian-American
appointed Director of The National Institute of Standards and
Technology. |
1993 |
Misc. |
Michael Guingona becomes the first
Filipino-American elected to the City Council of Daly City,
California. He becomes the
youngest Mayor in 1995. |
1993 |
Misc. |
Sara Combs becomes the first woman member on
the Kentucky Supreme Court. |
1993 |
Misc. |
Kenneth Daniel Miyagishima is the first
Japanese-American elected in the State of
New Mexico when elected to the City Council of the City of Las
Cruces. |
1993 |
Misc. |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is
now officially observed in all 50 United
States states. |
1994 |
dem |
Hawaii's Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano was the first Filipino-American and
second Asian-American elected to a Governorship in the United States.
See 1987. |
1994 |
Misc. |
Accepted in 1993 then rejected when
her gender was revealed, Shannon Faulkner wins in court to become the
first woman to attend the Citadel in South Carolina.
Faulkner drops out after four days in the infirmary recuperating from
the first half day of "hell week" an initial period of intense physical
training. |
1994 |
dem |
California's Secretary of State March Fong Eu is the
first Asian-American to hold a constitutional office in the U.S. when
elected California Secretary of
State.
|
1994 |
GOP |
Matthew K. Fong is the first Asian-American to serve as
California State Treasurer.
His Mother, March Fong Eu, was elected
California Secretary of State the
same year. |
1994 |
dem |
Hawaii's Lieutenant Governor Mazie Hirono is the first
Asian-American woman to hold the office. She is also the first Asian
immigrant to obtain the office of Lieutenant Governor of a U.S. state. |
1995 |
dem |
Bernard Harris is the first Black American astronaut to take a
spacewalk. |
1995 |
dem |
The first public official in the U.S. of
Vietnamese descent is Minh Chau Nguyen when she was elected to the
Garret Park City Council in Maryland. |
1995 |
dem |
President of the
Colorado State Senate, Stanley Matsunaka, becomes the first Asian-American to be President of a state
legislature body outside of Hawaii. |
1996 |
dem |
Gary Locke is elected Governor of Washington State becoming the first
Chinese-American governor in the history of the U. S.
See 1993. Locke was also the first Asian
American to become a governor on the U.S. mainland. See
1974. |
1996 |
dem
Soc |
The socialist New Party fields its first
successful candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. Danny K.
Davis won the seat in the Illinois 7th Congressional District, Having
ran under the banner of the Democrat Party.
Sources:
New Party News; Pub. by New Party National Committee,
Inc.; Vol. V, No. 2, Spring 1996; Front Page.
-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_K._Davis |
1996 |
dem
Soc |
Barack H.
Obama, member of the (Socialist) New Party, wins his first political
race. Socialist Obama won his bid, to Chicago's 13th District State
Senate, under the banner of the Democrat Party. Barack H. Obama will, in
2008 win as a Democrat, the office of President of the United States.
See 2008 Political Firsts
- Barack Hussein Obama
Sources:
New Party News; Pub. by New Party National Committee,
Inc.; Vol. V, No. 2, Spring 1996; Front Page.
-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Senate_career_of_Barack_Obama |
1996 |
Misc. |
Lt. Colonel Linda Smith is
Kentucky's
first State Police Captain. In 1998 she becomes the first woman to hold
a command position and first woman assigned to the Bowling Green Command
Post. |
1996 |
Misc. |
Joe Bee Xiong is the first Hmong-American elected to
a U.S. city government when elected to the City Council in Eau Claire,
Wisconsin. |
1997 |
dem |
Linda Copple Trout is the first woman Chief Justice of the
Idaho Supreme
Court; elected by the members of the Idaho Supreme Court to the
position.
See 1992. |
1997 |
Misc. |
(Pete) Agapito Diaz
Fajardo, of Carson City, California, became the first Filipino-American
to be elected mayor in the mainland
United States, by direct vote of the people. Fajardo in 2003
pleaded guilty and in 2003 is sentenced to 15 months in federal prison
for extortion and accepting bribes totaling more than 120,000 dollars.
See 1990. |
1997 |
dem |
The first and highest ranking woman
is Madeleine Albright when she was confirmed by the U.S. legislature as
U.S. Secretary of State. |
1997 |
dem |
Bill Lann Lee (Chinese-American) is the first Asian-American named
Assistant Attorney General heading up the Civil Rights Division of the
U.S. Justice Department. ... As such he becomes the Highest Ranking
Asian-American law enforcement official in the U.S. |
1998 |
dem |
Paul M. Igasaki (Japanese-American) the first Asian-American to serve in
the position of Vice Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission is confirmed for a second term. |
1998 |
dem |
Paull H. Shin (Korean-America) is the first Asian-American senator in
Washington State
See 1992 |
1998 |
dem |
Frederick D. Gregory is
the first Black American to command a space shuttle mission. |
1998 |
dem |
Congresswoman Nydia M Velázquez is named Ranking Democratic Member of
the House Small Business Committee becoming the first
Puerto
Rican-American woman to be Chair (Ranking Member) of a full committee in
the House of Representatives.
See 1984, 1992. |
1998 |
dem |
First Asian-Pacific Islander-American woman, Susan
Mollway Oki (Japanese-American), of Hawaii,
was appointed as a judge to the federal bench. |
1998 |
Misc. |
Texas executes Karla Fay Tucker on February 3rd; the first
woman executed in the U.S. since 1984. |
1998 |
dem |
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton,
appearing on the "Today Show" on January 27th, coins the phrase "vast
right-wing conspiracy" in attempts to demonize those opposing her
husband. Though no conspiracy existed many on the right begin to
proudly call themselves members of the "vast right-wing conspiracy." |
1998 |
Misc. |
The state of
Maine becomes the first in 1998 where
the voters repeal a gay rights law. The law was passed just one year
before. |
1998 |
dem |
Stephanie Tubbs Jones became the
first Black American to serve in the Ohio Congress in 1996. She later
became the first Black woman to serve on the House Ways and Means
Committee and to be chairwoman of the House Ethics Committee. |
1998 |
Misc. |
Independent party's Jesse Ventura
wins the
Minnesota Gubernatorial race; the first time use of the
internet was crucial in a victory. |
1998 |
Misc. |
A college dropout from the
University of California becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in
cyberspace, after sending a threatening email to 60 Asian-Americans. |
1999 |
dem |
Nicki Patton becomes the
chairperson of the Democratic Party of
Kentucky. This is the first time both parties were led by women. |
1999 |
GOP |
Ellen Williams becomes the
chairperson of the Republican Party of
Kentucky. This is the first time both parties were led by women. |
1999 |
dem |
Washington State's first all-women trade mission to Eastern Europe
occurred. The issue of "sexual trafficking of women and girls" was
discussed. |
1999 |
dem |
Bill Lann Lee (Chinese-American) becomes the
first Asian-American appointed to be Assistant Attorney General for
Civil Rights. |
1999 |
dem |
David Wu is the first Chinese-American to serve
in the U.S.
House of Representatives when elected from
Oregon's 1st Congressional
District. |
1999 |
Misc. |
Chanrithy Uong is the first Cambodian-American to
serve on a city
council in Massachusetts, when elected
to the Lowell City Council. |
1999 |
Misc. |
The first
Asian American male elected to the Houston,
Texas city council was Gordon Quan in
1999.
See 2002 |
1999 |
dem |
The first Asian
American to become a four-star general is Eric Ken Shinseki (Japanese
American). Shinseki became the Army's 28th vice chief of staff on
November 1998 then became the Army's 34th Chief of Staff on June 22,
1999. |
1999 |
dem |
Air
Force Colonel Eileen Collins is the first woman to Command a US Space
Shuttle mission. |
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