Kirsten Gillibrand

Attorney, author, and progressive U.S. senator from New York, Kirsten Gillibrand was sworn in on January 2009 as the 111th Congress's youngest member at 42. In November 2012, Gillibrand was elected to her first six-year Senate term with a historic 72 percent of the vote, winning 60 of New York's 62 counties in the largest victory margin for a statewide candidate in New York history.