Carol Moseley Braun

U.S. Congressperson

1947 –

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Who is Carol Moseley Braun?

Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun, is an American politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. She was the first and only African-American woman elected to the United States Senate, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first and only female Senator from Illinois. From 1999 until 2001, she was the United States Ambassador to New Zealand. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Following the public announcement by Richard M. Daley that he would not seek re-election, in November 2010, Braun began her campaign for Mayor of Chicago. The former Senator placed fourth in a field of six candidates, losing the February 22, 2011, election to Rahm Emanuel.

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Born
Aug 16, 1947
Chicago
Religion
  • Catholicism
  • Episcopal Church
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • University of Chicago Law School

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on July 23, 2013

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