Mississippi Is Sending Its First Woman To Congress. Here's When Your State Did That
Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith will be Mississippi's first woman in Congress when she takes over for Sen. Thad Cochran, leaving Vermont as the only state that has never sent a woman to Capitol Hill.
Today, Mississippi became the 49th state to chose its first woman to send to Congress.
The appointment of Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith as Mississippi's junior senator comes 101 years after the first woman, Montana Rep.
