Carol Moseley Braun is a former US Senator from Illinois, born on August 16, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the first African American woman elected to the US Senate, serving from 1993 to 1999.
Early Life and Career
Braun was born to Joseph Moseley, a policeman, and Edna (Davie) Moseley, a medical assistant. She graduated from the University of Illinois in 1969 and received her law degree from the University of Chicago in 1972.
Braun served as an assistant US attorney from 1973 to 1977 and was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1978 to 1988. She became the first African American woman to serve as assistant majority leader.
US Senate and Later Career
In 1992, Braun was elected to the US Senate, becoming the first woman to serve on the Senate Finance Committee. She lost her re-election bid in 1998.
After leaving the Senate, Braun served as the American ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from 1999 to 2001. She also founded an organic products company, Good Food Organics, and ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004.
Original reporting: KRDO (Colorado Springs metro) — read the source article.
