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Mar 12, 1968 Bangkok, Thailand 56 years old
United States Senator from Illinois
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About Tammy Duckworth
- Ladda Tammy Duckworth (born March 12, 1968) is an American politician and former U.S.
- Army lieutenant colonel who has served as the junior United States Senator for Illinois since 2017.
- A member of the Democratic Party, she represented Illinois's 8th district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017.
- Before election to office, she served as Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2009–11) and Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs (2006–09).
- Duckworth was elected to the U.S.
- Senate in 2016, defeating Republican incumbent Mark Kirk.Duckworth was the first Thai-American woman elected to Congress, the first born in Thailand elected to Congress, the first woman with a disability to be elected to Congress, the first female double amputee in the Senate, and the first Senator to give birth while in office.
- Duckworth is the second Asian American woman serving in the U.S.
- Senate, after Mazie Hirono, and before Kamala Harris. A combat veteran of the Iraq War, Duckworth served as a U.S.
- Army helicopter pilot and suffered severe combat wounds, which caused her to lose both of her legs and some mobility in her right arm.
- She was the first female double amputee from the war.
- Despite her grievous injuries, she sought and obtained a medical waiver which allowed her to continue serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard along with her husband, Major Bryan W.
- Bowlsbey, a signal officer and fellow Iraq War veteran.
- Both have since retired from the armed forces.
