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Senate Years of Service: 1999-2011
Party: Democrat
LINCOLN, Blanche Lambert, a Representative and Senator from Arkansas; born in Helena, Phillips
County, Ark., September 30, 1960; attended public schools; B.A., Randolph-Macon
Woman’s College 1982; staff assistant to Representative William V. Alexander,
Jr. 1982-1984; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third Congress (January
3, 1993-January 3, 1995) as Blanche Lambert; reelected to the One Hundred
Fourth Congress (January 3, 1995-January 3, 1997) as Blanche Lambert Lincoln;
was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress, but was
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1998; reelected in 2004,
and served from January 3, 1999, to January 3, 2011; chair, Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (One Hundred Eleventh Congress [September
9, 2009-January 3, 2011]); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
2010.
Bibliography”Blanche Lambert Lincoln,” in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 2006.
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