Carol Moseley Braun
She is well known as the American diplomat, lawyer and politician who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. The first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, Braun was also the first African-American U.S. Senator from the Democratic Party. In 2004, she ran for president as a Democrat in the presidential election but lost the Democratic nomination to John Kerry.
