Women State Legislators in Texas - Kay Bailey Hutchison, Norma Chavez, Judith Zaffirini, Florence Shapiro, Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Jordan (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Norma Chavez, Judith Zaffirini, Florence Shapiro, Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Jordan, Leticia R. Van de Putte, Suzanna Hupp, Jane Nelson, Irma Rangel, Lena Guerrero, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Debbie Riddle, Kay Granger, Melissa Noriega, Sarah T. Hughes, Joan Huffman, Helen Giddings, Elizabeth Ames Jones, Senfronia Thompson, Ellen Cohen, Susan Combs, Wendy Davis, Barbara Mallory Caraway, Sarah Weddington, Vicki Truitt, Frances Farenthold, Nancy McDonald, Ana Hernandez, Arlene Wohlgemuth, Beverly Woolley, Dora Olivo, Yvonne Davis, Lou Nelle Sutton, Carol Kent. Excerpt: Kathryn Ann Bailey Hutchison, known as Kay Bailey Hutchison (born July 22, 1943), is the senior United States Senator from Texas. She is a member of the Republican Party. In 2001, she was named one of the thirty most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. The first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate, Hutchison also became the first Texas U.S. senator to receive more than four million votes in a single election. Hutchison is the most senior female Republican senator, and fifth most senior female senator, having assumed office in June 1993 behind Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD, 1987), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA, 1992), Barbara Boxer (D-CA, Jan. 1993), and Patty Murray (D-WA, Jan. 1993). Hutchison was born in Galveston to the former Kathryn Ella Sharp and Allan Abner Bailey, Jr., an insurance agent. She has two brothers, Allan and Frank. Hutchison grew up in La Marque, Texas. She married her first husband, John Pierce Parks, a medical student, on April 8, 1967; they divorced in 1969. She married her second husband, Ray Hutchison, in Dallas on March 16, 1978. They have two adopted children: Kathryn Bailey and Houston Taylor, both adopted in 2001. She also has two stepdaughters, Brenda and Julie, from her husband's previou...