Tammy Baldwin

Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin ( born February 11, 1962 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. From 1999 to 2013 she was a Member of the House of Representatives of the United States and represented there the second Congressional District of Wisconsin. In 2012 she was elected U.S. Senator for her state and is the first openly gay member of the Senate of the United States since taking office on January 3, 2013.

Life

Baldwin was born in Madison and grew up with her mother Pamela Green. She graduated in 1980 at the Madison West High School, graduating in 1984 with a bachelor's degree from Smith College and earned a JD in 1989 from the University of Wisconsin Law School. From 1989 to 1992 she worked as a lawyer.

Baldwin lives with her ​​partner Lauren Azar. As the first and only member of the U.S. Senate, she lives openly homosexual; in the U.S. House of Representatives, she was one of three (along with Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Jared Polis of Colorado).

Political career

A political choice Baldwin won for the first time in 1986 when she was elected to the Board of Supervisors of Dane County. In the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 to 1999 she was deputy. In 1998 she was elected as the first woman from the state of Wisconsin in the House of Representatives of the United States and every two years (most recently in November 2010 with 61.7 percent of the vote ) confirmed in office. She was a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Judiciary Committee. Within their group they belonged to the Congressional Progressive Caucus and voted in 2002 as one of 133 members of the House against the Iraq war.

In 2012 she ran for the U.S. Senate, won against her Republican opponent Tommy Thompson and represents since January 3, 2013 as the first woman in the Wisconsin Senate of the United States.