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Cardiss Hortense Collins, nata Robertson (Saint Louis, 24 settembre 1931 – 3 febbraio 2013), è stata una politica statunitense, membro della Camera dei Rappresentanti per lo stato dell'Illinois dal 1973 al 1997.
Cardiss Hortense Collins (née Robertson; September 24, 1931 – February 3, 2013) was an American politician from Illinois who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the fourth African-American woman in Congress and the first to represent the Midwest.
28 giu 2010 · Former U.S. Congresswoman of Illinois's 7th district Cardiss Collins was born on September 24, 1931, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Finley and Rosia Mae Cardiss Robertson. When she was ten years old, she moved with her family to Detroit, Michigan, where she attended the Detroit High School of Commerce.
7 feb 2013 · Cardiss Collins, who reluctantly ran for a Chicago Congressional seat left vacant when her husband died in a plane crash and went on to become Illinois’s first black congresswoman, serving for...
Cardiss Hortense Collins was an American politician from Illinois who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the...
15 dic 2007 · Cardiss Collins was an enormously successful Congresswoman who was reelected to serve in Congress with large margins in each of her terms. She was rewarded for exemplary service with honorary degrees from Loyola and Roosevelt Universities in Chicago and from the Congressional Black Caucus.
2 mag 2003 · Cardiss Hortense Collins served in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997, after first being elected in a special election to replace her husband, George Collins, who had died in office. She was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from Illinois, and the first woman and first African….
