Statistics for Firsts in the U.S. House of Representatives

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First...	Year Starting Term(s)	State(s) Represented	Answer	% Correct
Muslim Woman (tied)	2019	Minnesota	Ilhan Omar	83%
Muslim Woman (tied)	2019	Michigan	Rashida Tlaib	79%
Native American Woman (tied) (Laguna Pueblo)	2019	New Mexico	Debra "Deb" Haaland	75%
Openly LGBTQ Man Elected	2009	Colorado	Jared Polis	75%
Muslim	2007	Minnesota	Keith Ellison	75%
Native American Woman (tied) (Ho-Chunk)	2019	Kansas	Sharice Davids	71%
Hindu	2009	Hawaii	Tulsi Gabbard	71%
LGBTQ (openly) Elected	1999	Wisconsin	Tammy Baldwin	67%
Buddhist (tied); Buddhist Woman	2007	Hawaii	Mazie Hirono	63%
Buddhist (tied); Buddhist Man	2007	Georgia	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	58%
to Have Been Previously President	1831	Massachusetts	John Quincy Adams	58%
to Commit Suicide in Office (1906)	1893	Pennsylvania	Robert Adams, Jr.	58%
Woman to Also Serve in the Senate	1940	Maine	Margaret Chase Smith	50%
to Be in a Same-Sex Marriage (2012)	1981	Massachusetts	Barnett "Barney" Frank	46%
Openly LGBTQ Person (voluntarily disclosed in 1987)	1981	Massachusetts	Barnett "Barney" Frank	46%
Latin-American Woman	1989	Florida	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	42%
Sisters to Serve Jointly	2003	California	Loretta and Linda Sánchez	38%
African-American Woman	1969	New York	Shirley Chisholm	38%
to Be Elected and Then Later Become Cabinet Secretary (1801)	1789	Virginia	James Madison	33%
to Later Become President (1809)	1789	Virginia	James Madison	33%
To Later Become Vice President (1813)	1789	Massachusetts	Elbridge Gerry	29%
Incumbent to Be Elected President	1881	Ohio	James A. Garfield	25%
Alumnus of United States Military Academy (1828)	1845	Mississippi	Jefferson Davis	25%
Pacific Islander (Hawaiian)	1977	Hawaii	Daniel Akaka	21%
Alumna of the United States Air Force Academy (1982)	1998	New Mexico	Heather Wilson	21%
to Be Killed While Acting in an Official Congressional Capacity (1978)	1973	California	Leo Ryan	21%
East Asian-American (Japanese-American)	1959	Hawaii	Daniel Inouye	17%
Speaker of the House	1789	Pennsylvania	Frederick A.C. Muhlenberg	17%
First Siblings to Serve Jointly	1791	Pennsylvania	Frederick and John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg	17%
Woman	1917	Montana	Jeannette Rankin	17%
Atheist (openly)	1973 (announced 2007)	California	Fortney Hillman "Pete" Stark, Jr.	13%
Openly LGBTQ Person (outed in 1983)	1973	Massachusetts	Gerry Studds	13%
of Puerto Rican Heritage (tied)	1971	New York	Charles Rangel	8%
to be Elected Under Multiple Parties (5 between 1853-1870)	1853	Massachusetts	Nathaniel P. Banks	8%
to Later Become a Senator (1791)	1789	Connecticut	Roger Sherman	8%
Asian-American	1957	California	Dalip Singh Saund	4%
Indian-/South Asian-American Man	1957	California	Dalip Singh Saund	4%
Sikh	1957	California	Dalip Singh Saund	4%
Jewish Woman	1925	California	Florence Prag Kahn	4%
Born Outside U.S. Territory or Original Colonies (Kingdom of Ireland)	1789	South Carolina	Aedanus Burke	0%
Woman to Defeat Incumbent Congressman	1921	Oklahoma	Alice Robertson	0%
to Die in Automobile Accident (1912)	1909	Ohio	Carl C. Anderson	0%
Two Represent Two States	1789, 1801	Pennsylvania, Maryland	Daniel Hiester	0%
to Be Elected after Multiple Unsuccessful Campaigns (1922, 1924, 1926, 1928)	1931	Ohio	Frank Kniffin	0%
to Serve Non-consecutive Sequences of Terms	1789, 1795	Massachusetts	George Leonard	0%
of Puerto Rican Heritage (tied)	1971	New York	Herman Badillo	0%
Alumnus of United States Naval Academy (1968)	1897	Pennsylvania	John Buchanan Robinson	0%
Elected Posthumously	(1836)	Georgia	John Coffee	0%
with Native American Ancestry, alleged (Powhatan)	1817	Virginia	John Floyd	0%
to Be Killed by Another Representative (1838)	1837	Maine	Jonathan Cilley	0%
African-American	1870	South Carolina	Josephy Rainey	0%
Jewish Person	1845	South Carolina	Lewish Charles Levin	0%
Child of a Representative Also to Be Elected	1805	Connecticut	Lewis Sturges	0%
Wife to Succeed Her Husband	1923	California	Mae Ella Nolan	0%
Asian-American Woman	1965	Hawaii	Patty Minsk	0%
Woman of Color	1965	Hawaii	Patty Minsk	0%
with Native American Ancestry, confirmed (Cherokee)	1873	South Carolina	Richard H. Cain	0%
Roman Catholic Priest	1971	Massachusetts	Robert F. Drinan	0%
Latin-American	1877	California	Romualdo Pacheco	0%
to Later Be Confirmed Cabinet Secretary (1800)	1793	Massachusetts	Samuel Dexter	0%
to Die in Office (1831)	1829	Missouri	Spencer Darwin Pettis	0%
to Die in Airplane Accident (1928)	1923	New York	Thaddeus C. Sweet	0%
to Die of Natural Causes in Office (1790)	1789	Virginia	Theodorick Bland	0%
to Kill Another Representative (1838)	1835	Kentucky	William J. Graves	0%
to Give Birth in Office	1973	California	Yvonne Brathwaite Burke	0%

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