Born in San Francisco in 1933, Feinstein was elected president of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1978, the first woman to hold that office. She then became acting mayor of the city later that year, due to the assassination of Mayor Henry Mascone. In 1990, she won a special election to become one of California’s U.S. senators and the first woman to hold the elected office, with fellow Californian Barbara Boxer being elected to the Senate weeks later.
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