Carol Moseley Braun
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| United States Ambassador to Samoa | |
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In office February 8, 2000 – March 1, 2001 |
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| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Joe Beeman |
| Succeeded by | Philip Wall (Acting) |
| United States Ambassador to New Zealand | |
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In office December 15, 1999 – March 1, 2001 |
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| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Joe Beeman |
| Succeeded by | Philip Wall (Acting) |
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United States Senator from Illinois |
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In office January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Alan Dixon |
| Succeeded by | Peter Fitzgerald |
| Recorder of Deeds of Cook County | |
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In office December 1, 1988 – December 1, 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Bus Yourell |
| Succeeded by | Jesse White |
| Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 25th district |
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In office January 12, 1983 – December 1, 1988 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Donne Trotter |
| Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 24th district |
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In office January 5, 1979 – January 12, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Mann |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
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Carol Elizabeth Moseley August 16, 1947 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Braun (1973–1986) |
| Children | 1 |
| Education |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois, Chicago (BA) University of Chicago (JD) |
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 female African-American Senator, 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 female Senator from Illinois. She was the only female U.S. Senator from Illinois until Tammy Duckworth who became the U.S. Senator from Illinois in January 2017. From 1999 until 2001, she was the United States Ambassador to New Zealand. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Following the public announcement by Richard M. Daley that he would not seek re-election, in November 2010, Braun began her campaign for Mayor of Chicago. The former Senator placed fourth in a field of six candidates, losing the February 22, 2011, election to Rahm Emanuel.
Carol Elizabeth Moseley was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended public and parochial schools. She attended Ruggles School for elementary school, and she attended Parker High School (now the site of Paul Robeson High School) in Chicago. Her father, Joseph J. Moseley, was a Chicago police officer and apple guard and her mother, Edna A. (Davie), was a medical technician in a hospital. Both her parents were Catholic. The family lived in a segregated middle-class neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago. Her parents divorced when she was in her teens, and she lived with her grandmother. She began her undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, but dropped out after four months. She then majored in political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, graduating in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1972.
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