Representative, New York · 1969–1983
Shirley Chisholm
First Black woman in Congress. Anti-war, feminist, and a 1972 presidential campaign.
Shirley Chisholm is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Representative, New York, 1969–1983. The placement note is: First Black woman in Congress. Anti-war, feminist, and a 1972 presidential campaign.
The dot is economics -48 and authority -22. That is left of center on economics. The other axis sits toward liberty. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
Said: Unbought and unbossed. A seat at the table for people the House had not seated. Done: She ran for president, expanded food stamps, and did not become a power broker. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Bella Abzug (-46 / -20) and Edward M. Kennedy (-50 / -18). Nearness is not a school of thought.
This page does not add votes that are not in the placement note. The bills themselves are in the Congressional Record for those years.