Tammy Baldwin, born February 11, 1962 in Madison, Wisconsin, is the first openly LGBT person to be elected to the U.S. Senate. In 1992, she ran for Wisconsin's 78th Assembly District and won, becoming one of six openly gay candidates to win public office in 1992. She got re-elected 3 times.
When Representative Scott Klug announced he would retire in 1998, Baldwin ran for his seat and defeated the Republican candidate in the general election, becoming the first openly gay woman elected to the House of Representatives.
In 2011, she announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate and won the election on November 19, 2012, becoming the first openly gay U.S. Senator in history.
She is running for re-election in 2018.
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