About Blanche Lincoln
Blanche Lambert Lincoln is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1998; she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and youngest woman ever elected to the Senate at age 38. She previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arkansas's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1997. Lincoln was the first woman and the first Arkansan to serve as chair of the U.S. In 1993, Lincoln (then under her maiden name Lambert) became one of the first three women to play in the annual Congressional Baseball Game, alongside Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Maria Cantwell. She subsequently won the general election, beating Republican Terry Hayes with 70% of the vote. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, claiming that the firing of eight federal prosecutors created a "serious breach between the Justice Department and Congress, a breach that I'm not sure can be repaired with Mr.
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