Tammy Baldwin- Biography
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The first openly homosexual senator elected to the U.S. Senate is Tammy Baldwin. She is also the first congresswoman from Wisconsin.
Tammy Baldwin- Birth, Age, Ethnicity, Siblings, Education
Tammy Baldwin, a politician with the Democratic Party, was born on February 11, 1962, in Wisconsin. Baldwin served as the 78th District’s representative in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 until 1999.
She has not revealed about her family member and educational background.
Tammy Baldwin- Relationship, Girlfriend
Lauren Azar, who was appointed commissioner of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission in 2007, and Baldwin started dating in the middle of the 1990s. After over 15 years together, the couple broke up in 2010, only a few months after Wisconsin domestic partnership paperwork was filed.
Tammy Baldwin- Professional Career
Baldwin gained notoriety during his tenure in the House (1999–2012) for concentrating on energy-related issues, serving on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and advocating for LGBTQ+ and universal healthcare.
Baldwin won the 1998 race for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first congresswoman from Wisconsin after defeating Republican contender Josephine Musser. In 2012, she was both the first Wisconsin woman and the first openly gay politician to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
On February 11, 1962, Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin was born to Pamela (Green) and Joseph Edward Baldwin. Baldwin, who was born and reared in Madison, Wisconsin, received the top grade in her 1980 class at Madison West High School. She attended Smith College in Massachusetts after high school, where she double majored in government and mathematics.
Baldwin earned a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1989 after graduating in 1984. Baldwin had already begun a career in public service by that point. She was chosen to serve as a representative of Madison’s downtown on the Dane County Board of Supervisors in 1986. She served a term in the Madison Common Council in the same year.
Baldwin continued to serve on the Dane County Board of Supervisors while still practicing law in Wisconsin after clearing the state’s Board of Examiners in 1989. In 1992, Baldwin won re-election to the board for the fourth time and a seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly. In addition to serving her fourth and last term on the Board of Supervisors, she also served her first term in the Wisconsin Assembly from 1993 to 1994, representing the 78th Assembly District, which included sections of Madison. She practiced law up to 1992.
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Baldwin was twice re-elected to Wisconsin’s Assembly (District 78), where she served until January 1999 before moving up the legislative ladder and making political history on a national scale. Baldwin became the second openly homosexual member of Congress and the first woman from Wisconsin to hold a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives after defeating Republican challenger Josephine Musser in the 1998 election (after Barney Frank).
Baldwin gained notoriety for her steadfast support of LGBTQ+ rights and universal health care while serving on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and representing Wisconsin’s 2nd District (which encompasses seven of the state’s counties) from 1999 to 2012. Baldwin’s creation of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, a piece of legislation that President Barack Obama signed into law in 2009, is one of her accomplishments while serving in the House.
Baldwin, who defeated Republican Tommy Thompson in the November 2012 election, became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the U.S. Senate more than ten years after becoming Wisconsin’s first congresswoman. (She was also the first woman elected to the Senate from Wisconsin.)
Baldwin’s motto is to disregard “the doubters, the cynics, and the keepers of the status quo; [those who say] you can’t, you shouldn’t, or you won’t,” according to her official website.
