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 | | Tammy frequently reminds young and old, alike, to ignore those she calls “the naysayers, the cynics, and the keepers of the status quo;” something she has done successfully throughout her political career. |
 | | Nonetheless, Tammy was elected three times to the State Assembly and then, at the age of 37, became the first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from the State of Wisconsin and the first non-incumbent, openly gay person to be elected to Congress. |
 | | Tammy Baldwin was born in February 1962 in the area she now represents in Congress and can trace one branch of her family tree back to 1866 in Sauk County (Baraboo). |
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