Democratic California U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein died Thursday night Sept. 28, 2023. Here are some of her most notable moments in a political career that spanned decades:After becoming active in prison issues, Feinstein wins a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969.Becomes acting mayor of San Francisco after Mayor George Moscone and Councilman Harvey Milk are assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White.
Wins a Senate seat, the first woman from California to do so. Five other women, including California’s Barbara Boxer, were elected to the Senate that year, often called the “Year of the Woman”: She’s now a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reeling from the 1991 Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill battle two years earlier over Hill’s charges of sexual harassment. The committee at the time had no women.
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