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TimeLines of Liberty
American History - Politics |
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Political Firsts
of the 21st Century
Last updated January, 2012. |
2nd Column: GOP / dem - either directly; served
under; or appointed by
Administration. ---
Misc. - unknown, non-partisan or not applicable. |
2000-2001-2002-2003-2004-2005-2006-2007-2008-2009
1600's, 1700's & 1800s
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1900s - 20th Century |
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Year |
Party |
( < The Party may be
of the Adminstration that made the appointment, or under which served.) |
The Event |
|
2000 |
|
2000 |
GOP |
George W. Bush
is the first President since 1888 to win the presidency without a
plurality of the popular vote. |
|
2000 |
dem |
Senator Joseph Lieberman, Vice Presidential candidate is the first Jew
on a major party's presidential ticket. |
|
2000 |
dem |
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first, "First Lady" to be elected to any
public office, when she is elected Senator from
New York. |
| 2000 |
dem |
Satveer Chaudhary is the first Asian-Indian-American
to serve as a senator in the United States when elected to the
Minnesota State Senate.
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|
2000 |
dem |
Norman Y. Mineta (Japanese-American) becomes Secretary of Commerce, the
first Asian-American appointed by the President to the Cabinet.
See 1971, 2001. |
|
2000 |
GOP |
The first
Chinese-American to hold a U.S. Attorney position was Norman Bay when he
becomes the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico. |
|
2000 |
dem |
Bill Clinton
visits Vietnam on November 16th to be the first sitting president to do
so. |
|
2001 |
|
2001 |
GOP |
President
George W. Bush
appoints Condoleezza Rice as National Security
Advisor, officially the Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs. She is the first woman and Black woman to hold the position. |
|
2001 |
GOP |
President
George W. Bush
appoints Elaine Chao (Chinese American) Secretary of Labor, She
is the first Asian-American Woman to hold a position in a Presidential
cabinet. |
|
2001 |
GOP |
President
George W. Bush
appoints Norman Y. Mineta as U.S. Secretary of
Transportation. He is the first Asian-American to hold the position.
This appointment also makes Mineta the first cabinet member to directly
switch from a Democratic to Republican cabinet.
See 1971, 2000. |
|
2001 |
dem |
The First Asian-Pacific Island-American woman,
Wilma Chan, was elected to the California
State Assembly; District 16, in 2001. |
| 2001 |
Misc. |
John Liu is the first Asain-Pacific
Islander-American elected to the New York City Council. He represented
Flushing, Queens. |
|
2002 |
|
2002 |
GOP |
Debra W. Yang
(Chinese-American) is appointed in May 2002 by President Bush becoming
as United States Attorney for the Central District of California. She is
the first Asian American woman to serve as a U.S. Attorney. |
|
2002 |
GOP |
Linda Lingle is elected the first woman governor of
Hawaii. |
|
2002 |
dem |
State Rep. Swati Dandekar is the
first Asian Indian-American woman to be elected to a legislative body in
the United States; Iowa, Legislative
District 36. |
| 2002 |
dem |
Susan Lee is the first Asian-Pacific
Islander-American woman to serve in the
Maryland House of Delegates; 16th District. |
|
2002 |
dem |
Mee Moua becomes the first Hmong
legislator in the U.S. when she is elected to the
Minnesota State Senate; Legislative
District 67. |
|
2002 |
Misc |
The first Asian American
elected to the New Jersey General Assembly was Upendra J. Chivukula. |
|
2002 |
Misc |
The first Asian
American to become Mayor Pro Tem of Houston, Texas was Gordon Quan from
2002 - 2004.
See 1999. |
|
2002 |
Misc |
In July,
Washington State is the
first to allow electronic filing for office, over the internet. |
|
2002 |
Misc |
In November,
Georgia is the first state to have
touch-screen voting in all precincts. |
|
2002 |
GOP |
John Herrington is the first Native-American to be an astronaut.
Herrington is from the Chickasaw Nation in
Oklahoma. |
|
2003 |
|
2003 |
dem |
Nancy Pelossi becomes the first woman to serve as the democratic
minority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives; California, 8th
Congressional District.
See 2007. |
|
2003 |
GOP |
Karen Tandy becomes the first woman
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief when confirmed by Congress in
July, 2003. |
|
2003 |
GOP |
Bobby Jindal is the first Asian-Indian-American to make a bid for
governor in Louisiana.
See 2004, See 2007 |
|
2003 |
dem |
Kathleen Blanco becomes Louisiana's
first woman governor wining the race by just 4 percentage points in
November, 2003. |
| 2003 |
GOP |
Sworn in on January 14th, Marha J. Wong
(Chinese-American) is the first Asian-American elected to serve in the
Texas state government, as a State
Representative from the 134th Legislative District.
See 1993. |
|
2004 |
|
2004 |
GOP |
George W. Bush
wins re-election as President, receiving the greatest
number of popular votes of any presidential candidate in U.S. History. |
|
2004 |
GOP |
Bobby Jindal, Republican from Louisiana, becomes the first
Asian-Indian-American elected to the U.S. Congress in 48 years.
See 1956 - See
2007. |
|
2004 |
Misc. |
The first
Asian American elected to the New York State Legislature was
Jimmy Meng (Chinese American). |
|
2004 |
GOP |
The first
Vietnamese American to serve in a U.S. state legislature was Van Tran
when elected to the
California State Assembly in 2004. |
|
2004 |
dem |
The first
Vietnamese American elected to the Texas Legislture was Hubert Vo, who
immigrated from Vietnam. |
|
2004 |
Misc. |
Ruth Asmundson of Davis, California is the first Filipino-American
to become a mayor of a major
California city. |
|
2004 |
Misc. |
Heather Jeanne
Fong becomes the first woman and first woman Asian American to head a
major metropolitan police force whe whe becomes the Police Chief for San
Francisco,
California. |
|
2004 |
Lib |
The first issuance of marriage
licenses to gay and lesbian couple are ordered, in San Francisco,
California on the unofficial
"National Freedom to Marry Day," by Mayor Gavin Newsom. Courts later
declare the licenses void. |
|
2004 |
GOP
dem |
Dino Rossi is the first Candidate to have won an
election, then upon feeble challenges has the victory removed and given to his
opponent Christine Gregoire who had "won" upon votes that were more than
offset by votes declared invalid. - Dino wins 2 of 3 recounts; Christine
wins 1 of 3 recounts and has votes nullified, but is allowed by an
activist court judge to be installed as
Washington State Governor.
(All three counts differed by less than 200 votes and 1700 votes were
declared invalid, yet the Judge failed to disqualify the election.) |
|
2005 |
|
2005 |
GOP |
Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor, becomes Secretary of State
to replace General Colin Powell. Rice is the first woman and first Black
woman to hold the position. |
|
2005 |
dem |
California's 15th District U.S.
Congressman Mike Honda becomes the highest-ranking Asian American in the
Democratic National Committee when he becomes the Democrat Party Vice
Chair. |
|
2005 |
GOP |
Alberto R. Gonzales (Cubin-American) is appointed and confirmed as the
first Hispanic to be U.S. Attorney General. |
|
2005 |
GOP |
President
George W. Bush is the first U.S.
president to attend a Russian victory parade on May 9th at Red Square in
Moscow. Hailing the Nazi defeat, President Bush describes the post-war
occupation of Eastern Europe by the Soviets as "one of
the greatest wrongs of history." |
|
2005 |
dem |
Christine Gregoire is installed as Governor of
Washington State without having received a legitimate majority of votes.
In the 2004 election less than 140 votes separated her and opponent Dino
Rossi. The first count gave the win to Rossi; challenged, the second
count gave the victory to Rossi; challenged again, the third count, with
more votes found in King County, gave the win to Gregoire. Subsequently
the courts declared around 1700 votes invalid but allowed Democrat
Gregoire to be installed as Governor, upon a invalid vote. Truly this
was the first clearly and documented "stolen" election. |
|
2006 |
|
2006 |
dem |
The first U.S. candidate to use
on-demand advertising to reach voters was Frank Caprio of
Rhode Island who ran for General
Treasurer. |
|
2006 |
dem |
Dick DeVos for
Michigan Governor had
the first handheld mobile campaign website (phone)
On on November 1, 2006 he delivered the first Mobile Video Campaign Ad.
|
|
2006 |
Con. |
Montana's
Rick Jore becomes the first candidate of the Constitution Party
to be elected to a state office, in 2006. |
|
2006 |
Misc. |
Maine Public Broadcasting held the
first Political Mobile Phone Poll on November 4th, 2006. |
|
2006 |
GOP |
In 2006 Sarah Palin takes office on
December 4th as Alaska's first
woman Governor. |
|
2007 |
|
2007 |
dem |
The first woman minority speaker of the U.S. House,
Nancy Pelosi, becomes the first woman Speaker of the House by a
party-line vote of 233-202, on January 04, 2007.
See 2003. |
|
2007 |
GOP |
Rachel Kunjummen
Paulose becomes U.S. Attorney for the District of
Minnesota on March 9, 2007. She is the
first Woman, first Asian-Indian-American woman and the youngest to hold
the position. |
|
2007 |
Misc. |
The first Hindu
prayer is read in the United States Senate in 2007 by Rajan Zed a
Prominent Hindu chaplain. |
|
2007 |
dem |
Paula Hammond is appointed to be
Washington
State's first woman Secretary of Transportation in October, 2007. |
|
2007 |
GOP |
In a Landslide victory in the
Louisiana
October Primary Bobby Jindal takes 54% of the vote to take the position
of Governor. He is the first Asian-Indian-American to become a
Governor of a U.S. state. Jindal is the first person of color to be
Governor of
Louisiana
since 1872, during reconstruction. Bobby Jindal is a pro-life, pro-gun,
anti-tax Rhodes scholor.
See 2003 - See 2004. |
|
2007 |
Misc. |
In February,
Virginia becomes the first state of the
Union to express "regret" for the past institution of Slavery. In a
resolution the state expresses a "profound regret" for the role it
played in history. The resolution included the exploitation of the
Native American Indian. |
|
2007 |
Whig |
The
Florida Whig Party is officially
recognized by the State of
Florida as a minor third party.
The Whig Party has not existed for 150 years, although there has been
some Whig activity on the internet for several years. |
|
2007 |
Misc. |
Harvard University in February, 2007
gets its first woman President, Drew Gilpin Faust. |
|
2007 |
GOP |
Peggy Whitson became the first woman to command the
International Space Station on October 19, 2007 |
|
2008 |
|
2008 |
dem |
At the National Democratic
Convention in Denver, Colorado Barak
Obama becomes the first Black American to become a Presidential
Candidate on any major party ticket on August 27th, 2008. |
|
2008 |
GOP |
Sarah Palin becomes the first Woman
Vice Presidential candidate on the Republican Ticket when Senator John
Mcain accepts the nomination for President at the GOP National
Convention in Minneapolis-St Paul,
Minnesota On September 4th, 2008 |
|
2008 |
GOP |
Major Jennifer
Grieves became the first woman Marine One commander in May 2008. She was
the second woman assigned to the unit. |
|
2008 |
dem |
The first woman and first
Black American woman is unanimously elected by the
California
State Assembly to be the Assembly Speaker, in March, 2008. |
|
2008 |
Misc. |
Dionne Mack-Harvin becomes the first
Black American Woman in
New York to head a major Library System when she
is appointed on March 22, 2007 as head of the Brooklyn Public Library. |
|
2008 |
dem
Soc |
Barack Hussein Obama
became the first Black-American on a Major National Party ticket when he
wins the delegates required to make him the Democratic Party's
presidential nominee. |
|
2008 |
dem
Soc |
Barack Hussein Obama
is elected the first Black American President when elected in November,
2008. Obama is also the first President to have been a member of a
Socialist party (New Party in Illinois, 1996).
See 1996 Political Firsts
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Barack Hussein Obama |
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2009 |
|
2009 |
dem
Soc |
Barack Hussein Obama
is inaugurated as the first Black American President on January 20th,
2009. Obama is first for the most spending of first-year presidents
out-spending any other. Obama's first-year spending was double that of
George W Bush. Obama is also the first President to have been a member of a
Socialist party (New Party in Illinois, 1996).
See 1996 Political Firsts
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Barack Hussein Obama |
|
2009 |
dem
Soc |
The transition
team of President-elect Obama announced on January 5th, 2009 that Elena
Kagan would be nominated the first woman to serve permanently as
Solicitor General. She was nominated by Obama on January 26th and
confirmed by the US Senate on March 19th. |
|
2009 |
GOP |
Michael Steel
becomes Chairman of the Republican National Committee on January 30th.
He is the first African-American to hold the position. |
|
2009 |
Misc
SA |
On February
14th, Saudia Arabia appointed its first woman minister. a US-educated
former teacher, Nora bint Abdullah al-Fayez became the deputy education
minister, over a new department for female students. |
|
2009 |
dem |
Gary Locke
becomes the first Asain American to become the first Chinese American
Secretary of Commerce in the President's cabinet. |
|
2009 |
Misc
UK |
On May 1st,
Carol McDuffy becomes the first woman poet-laurette of the United
Kingdom. The is also the first openly-gay person to hold the office. |
|
2009 |
Misc. |
Annise Parker
is the first openly gay mayor of Houston Texas, elected on November 3rd,
2009. Parker is also the second woman to hold the position. |
|
2009 |
Misc. |
The November
3rd election in the Big Apple, New York City leaves the white city
council members in the minority for the first time in the city's
history. |
|
2009 |
Misc. |
On November
3rd the Big Apple, New York City elected John Liu as City Controller. He
is the first Asian-American to win a citywide race in the city. |
|
2009 |
dem |
In November
Bill Owens becomes the first democrat to be elected to Pittsburgh's
11-county 23rd Congressional District since the Civil War. |
|
2009 |
dem |
Syracuse, New
York elects Stephanie Miner as its first woman mayor on November 4th,
2009. |
|
2009 |
Misc |
For the first
time minority students became the majority in the southern states
averaging out at 50.8%. In 2008 the break-down was 50/50. |
|
2010 |
|
2010 |
GOP |
Allen
B. West is elected to serve Florida as U.S. Reprensentative. Allen is
the first Black Republican Congressman from Florida since Josiah T.
Walls during Reconstruction. |
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Sheila Oliver is
sworn in at the Trenton War Memorial near
the Statehouse becoming New Jersey's first black
female Assembly Speaker on January 12th.
|
|
2010 |
dem |
In February,
John Gibbons was sworn in as the first Black Marshal over Federal Court
security in Boston, Springfield and Worcester. |
|
2010 |
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2010 |
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|
2010 |
dem |
California's
half-Indian American, Kamala Harris, becomes the first female, first
African American, and first Asian American state attorney general in the
United States. |
|
2010 |
GOP |
Nikki Haley
becomes the first female & governor of South Carolina when elected in
the 2010 election cycle. She is the first Sikh American and 2nd Indian
American governor in U.S. history. Haley is the 3rd Asain American to
become a governor in the continental U.S. |
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2011 |
|
2011 |
Misc. |
Jean Quan
becomes the first female and first Asian-American mayor of Oakland,
California when sworn into office in January. |
|
2011 |
dem |
Hansen Hashim Clarke becomes
the first United States Congressman of Bangladeshi descent
when he takes Michigan's 13th seat as U.S. Representative in
January, 2011. He won the election in August.
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2011 |
Misc. |
Jacksonville,
Florida has it's first African-American Mayor when Alvin Brown is
elected in May. Brown has also been Floriday's first Black Sheriff. |
|
2011 |
Misc. |
In July, in
Nevada, Pamela A. Goynes-Brown is the first Black woman elected to the
North Las Vegas City Council. |
|
2011 |
mil |
After 30 years
of service 52 year old, Marcia Anderson is promoted as America's first
Black woman two-star general in the U.S. Army. Her second star was
presented on September 29th. |
|
2011 |
dem |
A woman is
overwhelmingly elected Mayor, the first for Gary, Indiana. Karen
Freeman-Wilson won with 86% of the vote against an independent with only
7.5%. This election also makes Karen the first Female African-American
mayor in the history of Indiana. |
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2011 |
Misc. |
Herb Wesson, Los Angeles Councilman, becomes
the first African-American to be appointed president of the City
Council. Councilman Wesson was elected president in November. |
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2011 |
dem |
Cheryl Austin
was elected to the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas in
Pennsylvania, becoming the first black female on the county court. |
|
2011 |
Misc. |
Interim mayor
Ed Lee is elected the first Asain-American & first Chinese-American
Mayor of San Francisco, California in November. |
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