Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin, 3 January, 1999 - 3 January, 2013.
Graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
United State Senator from Wisconsin, 2013 - present. Her election also made her the first openly gay Senator in history.
Third cousin of actor and comedian Andy Samberg. Her maternal grandfather, biochemist David Ezra Green, and Andy's maternal grandfather were first cousins.
Through her Baldwin ancestry she is the distant cousin of many famous people including fellow Senator Elizabeth Warren.
She is also a distant cousin to actress Christina Appelgate through their common ancestry of Vincent Runyon and his wife Anna Martha Boutcher.