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Senator Dianne Feinstein faces pressure to end her 30 years representing California

  • Written by Lincoln Mitchell, Associate Adjunct Research Scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
imageDianne Feinstein, a former San Francisco mayor, became the first woman to represent California in the U.S. Senate, in 1992.Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images

On Nov. 27, 1978, Dianne Feinstein – then the 45-year-old president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and two-time failed mayoral candidate – effectively announced her...

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