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10 Democrats Who Made History: Media

Get to know the party’s trailblazers.

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Barack Obama, 2012
Pete Souza—Official White House Photo
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Trailblazing politician Nellie Tayloe Ross.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; neg. no. LC USZ62 79430
Hattie Caraway
American politician Hattie Caraway.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3c17121u)
Carl Stokes
Carl Stokes.
R. Gates—Archive Photos/Getty Images
Shirley Chisholm
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-U9- 25383-33)
Carol Moseley Braun
American politician Carol Moseley Braun, 1992.
Sue Ogrocki—Reuters/© Archive Photos
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton at the Democratic presidential primary debate in Las Vegas, October...
© Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock.com
Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, c. 2006.
Office of U.S. House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Barack Obama
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
Courtesy of the Office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama
Tammy Baldwin
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, 2015.
Office of U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin