Meet the women who made history last night.
Nevada elected the first ever Latina senator in U.S. history.
Catherine Cortez Masto defeated incumbent Republican Joe Heck in the race for the Nevada senate seat. She's the first Latina senator in U.S. history. She's a former Nevada attorney general and granddaughter of a Mexican immigrant. Her campaign was focused on an immigration overhaul and future Supreme Court picks.
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California elected the first Indian-American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
California's Attorney General Kamala Harris defeated a fellow Democrat by a little more than a third of the vote and was backed by both President Obama and Vice President Biden. She's mixed race, born to an Indian mother and a Jamaican-American father. She's now the first black U.S. Senator from California, second-ever black Senator, and first-ever Indian-American Senator.
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Florida elected the first ever Vietnamese-American woman to congress.
Stephanie Murphy was also endorsed by both Obama and Biden, along with the Human Rights Campaign. She's the daughter of Vietnamese refugees and immigrated to the U.S. when she was one year old. She defeated a 23-year-old Republican incumbent and is not the first Vietnamese-American woman to grab a spot in congress.
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Oregon elected the U.S.'s first LGBT governor.
Oregon is the first state to elect an openly LGBT governor. Kate Brown stepped in as governor of Oregon back in 2012, after the previous governor stepped down. But Brown properly ran this year and won becoming the first openly LGBT person to win a gubernatorial election. Brown was outed by The Oregonian for being bisexual in mid-90s. She's currently married with two stepchildren.
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from BuzzFeed - USNews https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/historic-firsts-2016-election?utm_term=4ldqpia
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