Sen. Dianne Feinstein from California has passed away, according to media reports. She was 90.
Feinstein served as the senior senator from California and was one of the first two women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.
“Dianne Feinstein, right from the start, was an inspiration for women in politics,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told ABC News.
Feinstein made history as the first woman mayor of San Francisco and the first woman president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
She was born in San Francisco on June 22, 1933, and graduated from Stanford University in 1955.
In 1992, Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time, alongside Barbara Boxer.
Feinstein went on to become the first woman to chair the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee. She authored the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994. This legislation was sparked by the 101 California Street shooting, where a gunman opened fire at a law firm in San Francisco’s financial district, resulting in the death of eight people. The ban placed a 10-year restriction on the sale and ownership of certain semi-automatic weapons.
“I worked alongside Republicans and Democrats alike,” Feinstein said in an interview with CSPAN. “Ten Republicans, along with 46 Democrats, voted in favor of the amendment.”
In recent years, Feinstein had been facing health issues. She was hospitalized with shingles in February 2023, at the age of 89. During that same month, she announced her intention to retire from the U.S. Senate at the end of her term in 2024.
Throughout her life, Feinstein was married three times and had one daughter, Katherine, from her first marriage. She married her third husband, investment banker Richard Blum, in 1980. They remained married until his death from cancer in 2022.
Some of Feinstein’s notable accomplishments in the U.S. Senate include establishing a federal coordination of Amber Alerts, passing the California Desert Protection Act (which protected millions of acres of California deserts and created the Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks), reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, and authorizing the Respect for Marriage Act in 2022 to ensure marriage equality under federal law.
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