Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin | |
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Baldwin in 2023 | |
| Secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2017 | |
| Leader | Chuck Schumer |
| Preceded by | Patty Murray |
| United States Senator from Wisconsin | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Herb Kohl |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 2nd district | |
| In office January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Scott Klug |
| Succeeded by | Mark Pocan |
| Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 78th district | |
| In office January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1999 | |
| Preceded by | David Clarenbach |
| Succeeded by | Mark Pocan |
| Member of the Dane County Board of Supervisors from the 8th district | |
| In office April 15, 1986 – January 3, 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Lynn Haanen |
| Succeeded by | Scott McCormick |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin February 11, 1962 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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| Website | Senate website |
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11, 1962) is an American politician and lawyer serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, she has also served as the secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017. Baldwin has been the dean of the United States congressional delegation from Wisconsin since 2023, when Representative Ron Kind retired.
Baldwin graduated from Smith College and the University of Wisconsin Law School, and was a lawyer in private practice before entering the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1993. She served three terms from Wisconsin's 78th Assembly district from 1993 to 1999, and seven terms as the United States congresswoman from Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district from 1999 to 2013. She was elected to the United States Senate in 2012, and reelected in 2018 and 2024.
Baldwin is the first openly lesbian woman elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly (1993), the first openly lesbian woman and first woman elected to the U.S. House from Wisconsin (1998), and the first openly LGBT person and first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin (2012). She has a progressive voting record on healthcare, reproductive rights, and LGBT rights.