| LC control no. | n 93109972 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Moseley-Braun, Carol, 1947- |
| Variant(s) | Braun, Carol Moseley-, 1947- Moseley, Carol, 1947- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19470816 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Affiliation | University of Illinois at Chicago Circle University of Chicago. Law School United States. Attorney (Illinois : Northern District) Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Ambassadors Lawyers Politicians |
| Found in | Carrigan, M. Carol Moseley-Braun, 1994: CIP galley (Carol Moseley; b. 08-14-47, Chicago; grad. Univ. of Chicago Law School, 1972; married Michael Braun, 1973; elected to the U.S. Senate, 1992) Her Shared prosperity through partnership, 1996 title page (Carol Moseley-Braun) Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, Sept. 25, 2013 (Moseley Braun, Carol, a Senator from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., August 16, 1947; educated in Chicago public schools; graduated, University of Illinois 1969; graduated, University of Chicago School of Law 1972; admitted to the Illinois bar in Chicago 1973; prosecutor, office of the United States Attorney, Chicago 1973-1977; member and assistant majority leader, Illinois house of representatives 1978-1988; recorder of deeds, Cook County, Ill., 1988-1992; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1992, and served from January 3, 1993, to January 3, 1999; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1998; ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, December 15, 1999-2001; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2004; entrepreneur; is a resident of Chicago, Ill., Atlanta, Ga., and Union Springs, Ala.) Wikipedia, Sept. 25, 2013 (Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), 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) Black Women in America, Second Edition, accessed February 27, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Moseley Braun, Carol; US senator, presidential candidate; born 16 August 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; political science major at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1968); Juris Doctorate at the University of Chicago Law School (1972); assistant US attorney in the US Attorney's Office in Chicago (1973-1977); state representative in the Illinois General Assembly (1978-1988); first African American assistant majority leader in the general assembly, as well as floor leader for then-Chicago mayor Harold Washington; first African American elected to executive position as recorder of deeds and registrar of titles for Cook County (1988); first African American woman and first African American Democrat elected to the US Senate, becoming a symbol of both racial and gender diversity (1992-1998); consulting position with the US Department of Education (1999); US ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa (1999); honors include, two Best Legislator Awards from the Independent Voters of Illinois (1980, 1982)) |
| Associated language | eng |
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