Carol Moseley Braun was born August 16, 1947, Chicago, Illinois. Her mother (Edna Moseley) was a medical technician and her father (Joseph Moseley) was a police officer. She went to the University of Chicago and got her Juris Degree in 1972. She became a persecutor for the United States Attorney’s office in Chicago. She mainly worked in civil and appellate law areas.
In 1978, she was elected as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives. While she was a representative, she was strong about helping African Americans and Hispanic Citizens. She also felt really strongly about abortions, She was Pro-Choice and she believed that women had the right to decide whether they want to keep the child or not. In 1991, she went up against Alan Dixon for the Senator. On November 3, 1992, she won. That meant that she was the first African American woman to be elected into the United States Senate.
But in 1993, she was investigated for a Federal Elections Commission, because there was $249,000 unaccounted for in Campaign Funds. She was clean, so they let it got. Later, she left the country and went to Nigeria to talk to the dictator Sani Abacha. And it was said that she defended the dictators actions.
1991, She was accused of being corrupted by George Will. He wrote a column explaining why he thought she was corrupted. She responded with comparing him to a Ku Klux Klansman in this quote from her, "I mean this very sincerely from the bottom of my heart: He can take his hood and put it back on again, as far as I'm concerned." She later apologized for her response.
And right now, she’s not doing much. I just wanted to point out how weird it is that. She was mugged by a man named Joseph Dixon and she won an election against an Alan Dixon. I wonder if there is any relation. At first I thought that I would be cool to write a report about the first female African American Senator. But now after learning about her, I think that she was corrupt in some way. She just doesn’t seem right. I don’t know what she would meet with a dictator for.
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