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The following is a list of Jewish political milestones in the United States .
First Jewish member of a colonial legislature (
South Carolina ):
Francis Salvador (1775)
[1]
First Jewish soldier killed in the
American Revolutionary War : Francis Salvador (1776)
[2]
First Jewish member of the
U.S. Congress (
U.S. House of Representatives ):
Lewis Charles Levin (1845)
[3]
First Jewish member of the
U.S. Senate :
David Levy Yulee (1845)
[4]
First Jewish mayor of a major American city (
Portland, Oregon ):
Bernard Goldsmith (1869)
First Jewish governor of a
U.S. state (
California ):
Washington Bartlett (1887)
[5]
First Jewish
U.S. Cabinet member (
Secretary of Commerce and Labor ):
Oscar Straus (1906)
[6]
First Jewish Justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court :
Louis Brandeis (1916)
[8]
First Jewish female member of the
U.S. Congress (
U.S. House of Representatives ):
Florence Prag Kahn (1925)
[9]
First Jewish
Secretary of the Treasury :
Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1934)
[10]
First person of Jewish ancestry to run for
President of the United States on a major party ticket:
Barry Goldwater (1964) (Goldwater's father was Jewish; Goldwater was raised Episcopalian)
[11]
[12]
First person of
Sephardic Jewish ancestry to run for
President of the United States :
Louis Abolafia (1968)
[13]
First Jewish candidate to receive an
electoral vote for Vice President:
Tonie Nathan of the
Libertarian Party , from a
faithless elector (1972)
[14]
First Jewish
Secretary of Defense :
James R. Schlesinger (1973)
[15]
First Jewish
Secretary of State :
Henry Kissinger (1973)
[16]
First Jewish
Mayor of New York City :
Abraham Beame (1974), (
Fiorello LaGuardia , who was mayor from 1934 to 1946, was born to an
Italian Jewish mother from
Trieste and a
lapsed Catholic turned
atheist father from
Apulia ; however, he was a
Protestant )
[17]
First Jewish
Attorney General :
Edward H. Levi (1975)
[18]
First Jewish female mayor of a major American city (
Dallas ):
Adlene Harrison (1976)
[19]
First Jewish female governor of a
U.S. state (
Vermont ):
Madeleine M. Kunin (1985)
[20]
First Jewish openly gay member of the
U.S. Congress (
U.S. House of Representatives ):
Barney Frank (took office 1981, disclosed homosexuality 1989)
[21]
Jared Polis became the first Jewish Congressman to be openly gay upon first election: (2009)
[22]
First U.S. Senate election in which both major party candidates were Jewish:
1990 Minnesota U.S. Senate Election ; with
Paul Wellstone defeated
Rudy Boschwitz (1990)
[23]
First independent Jewish member of the
U.S. Congress (
U.S. House of Representatives ):
Bernie Sanders (1991)
[24]
First Jewish female members of the
U.S. Senate :
Barbara Boxer and
Dianne Feinstein (1993)
[25]
First Jewish female Justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court :
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1993)
[26]
First Jewish female
U.S. Cabinet member (
Secretary of State ):
Madeleine Albright (1997) (also first woman Secretary of State)
[27]
[28]
[29]
[30]
First Jewish nominee for
Vice President of the United States on a major party ticket, and first Jewish candidate to receive an
electoral vote , excluding
faithless electors :
Joe Lieberman (2000)
[31]
First Jewish
U.S. House whip :
Eric Cantor (2009) (also first Jewish
whip in either chamber of Congress)
[32]
First Jewish
U.S. House floor leader :
Eric Cantor (2011) (also first Jewish
floor leader and
majority leader in either chamber of Congress)
[32]
First Jewish American to win a presidential primary (New Hampshire):
Bernie Sanders (2016)
[33]
[34]
[35]
[36] (
Barry Goldwater , the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, was the first winner of Jewish heritage, but was a Christian).
[37]
First Jewish American to receive an
electoral vote for President:
Bernie Sanders , from a
faithless elector (2016)
[38] (Barry Goldwater was the first of Jewish heritage, in 1964, but was not Jewish)
First Jewish
U.S. Senate floor leader :
Chuck Schumer (2017) (also first Jewish
minority leader in either chamber of Congress)
[39]
First Jewish
Second Gentleman (and first Jewish American spouse of Vice President):
Douglas Emhoff (2021)
First Jewish
U.S. Senate majority leader : Chuck Schumer (2021)
First Jewish female (and the first woman) Secretary of the Treasury:
Janet Yellen (2021)
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