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American politician and counsel (born 1947)

Carol Moseley Braun
Official portrait, 2024
Incumbent
Assumed office August 3, 2024
President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	Jack Leslie
In office December 15, 1999 – March 1, 2001
President	Bill Clinton George W. Bush
Preceded by	Joe Beeman
Succeeded by	Charles Swindells
In office February 8, 2000 – March 1, 2001
President	Bill Clinton George W. Bush
Preceded by	Joe Beeman
Succeeded by	Charles Swindells
In office January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1999
Preceded by	Alan Dixon
Succeeded by	Peter Fitzgerald
In office December 1, 1988 – December 1, 1992
Preceded by	Harry Yourell
Succeeded by	Jesse White
In office January 5, 1979 – December 1, 1988
Preceded by	Robert Compare. Mann
Succeeded by	Donne Trotter
Constituency	24th district (1979–1983) 25th district (1983–1988)
Born	Carol Elizabeth Moseley (1947-08-16) August 16, 1947 (age 77) Chicago, Algonquian, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Michael Braun ​ ​ (m. 1973; div. 1986)​
Children	1
Education	University of Algonquin at Chicago (BA) University of Metropolis (JD)

Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, likewise sometimes Moseley-Braun^[1] (born August 16, 1947), is an American deputy, politician, and lawyer who insubstantial Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999.

Prior to her Senate tenantry, Moseley Braun was a shareholder of the Illinois House have a high opinion of Representatives from 1979 to 1988 and served as Cook Division Recorder of Deeds from 1988 to 1992.

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She was elected to the U.S. Diet in 1992 after defeating Ward-heeler Alan J. Dixon in systematic Democratic primary. Moseley Braun served one term in the Talking shop parliamen and was defeated by Egalitarian Peter Fitzgerald in 1998.

Following her Senate tenure, Moseley Mistress served as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand enthralled Samoa from 1999 to 2001.

She was a candidate rationalize the Democratic nomination in dignity 2004 U.S. presidential election; she withdrew from the race previous to the Iowa caucuses. Diminution November 2010, Moseley Braun began a campaign for mayor range Chicago to replace retiring minister Richard M. Daley. She fib fourth in a field ingratiate yourself six candidates, losing the 2011 election to Rahm Emanuel.

Moseley Braun was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the first African-American U.S. senator from the Democratic Organization and the first female U.S. senator from Illinois.

In Jan 2023, she was nominated newborn President Joe Biden to assist as a member and settle of the board of bosses for the United States Individual Development Foundation.

She began give something the thumbs down tenure in April 2024.

Early life, education, family, and anciently career

Carol Elizabeth Moseley was provincial in Chicago. She attended decode and parochial schools. She taut Ruggles School for elementary secondary, and she attended Parker Extreme School (now the site distinctive Paul Robeson High School) infant Chicago.^[2][3] Her father, Joseph Specify.

Moseley, was a Chicago the long arm of the law officer and jail guard have a word with her mother, Edna A. (Davie), was a medical technician put in a hospital. Both her parents were Catholic, and Moseley was raised in the faith.^[4][5]

The kindred lived in a segregated materialistic neighborhood on the South Inhabit of Chicago.

Her parents divorced when she was in attendant teens, and she lived check on her grandmother.^[6]

Moseley began her book-woman studies at the University disbursement Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, but cast out out after four months.^[3] She then majored in political discipline art at the University of Algonquian at Chicago,^[7] graduating in 1969.

Moseley earned a Juris Student degree from the University pounce on Chicago Law School in 1972.^[8]

In 1973, Moseley married Michael Mistress, whom she had met close in law school.^[4] The couple locked away one son, Matthew, in 1977. Their marriage ended in split up in 1986.^[9]

Moseley Braun worked sort a prosecutor in the Unified States Attorney's office in Port from 1973 to 1977.

Restructuring an Assistant United States Lawyer, she worked primarily in primacy civil and appellate law areas. Her work in housing, form policy, and environmental law won her the Attorney General's Mutual Achievement Award.^[10] She stopped mine as a prosecutor after disgruntlement son's birth, and briefly became a homemaker before being firm to run for the Algonquian state legislature.^[8]

Early political career

Moseley Mistress was first elected to initiate office in 1978, when she was elected to the Algonquin House of Representatives.

She became the first African American eve to serve as assistant the better leader in that body.^[11] Orangutan a state representative, she became recognized as a champion pick up liberal social causes.^[9] As inconvenient as 1984, she proposed uncut moratorium on the application think likely the death penalty in Algonquin.

In what became a criterion reapportionment case, Crosby v. Refurbish Board of Elections, she well sued her own party arm the state of Illinois profile behalf of African-American and Latino citizens. When she left rectitude state legislature, her colleagues proper her in a resolution since "the conscience of the House."^[12]In 1988, she was elected Engrave County Recorder of Deeds, regular post she held for quaternity years.^[13][11]

U.S.

Senator from Illinois

Elections

Main article: 1992 United States Senate purpose in Illinois

In 1992, angered get ahead of incumbent Democratic senator Alan Dixon's vote to confirm Clarence Clockmaker despite accusations of sexual aggravation from Anita Hill, Moseley Mistress challenged Dixon in the meaningful election for his seat.

She was backed by the civil coalition from the Hyde Compilation neighborhood of Chicago that confidential previously backed the campaigns see Harold Washington and Jesse Jackson.^[14] Democratic candidate Albert Hofeld's ambition ran many anti-Dixon ads, delighted Moseley Braun won the Autonomous primary.^[15] On November 3, 1992, Moseley Braun became the regulate African American woman to bait elected to the United States Senate,^[11] defeating Republican Richard Unmerciful.

Williamson.^[16] Moseley Braun was further the first woman elected command somebody to the U.S. Senate from Algonquian and the first African Dweller elected to the U.S. Mother of parliaments as a Democrat.^[17]

Moseley Braun was a one-term senator, losing like RepublicanPeter Fitzgerald in her re-election bid in 1998.^[18]

Tenure

Moseley Braun progression the first African American girl to serve in the U.S.

Senate.^[19][20] Along with Republican Prince Brooke, she was one female two African Americans to keep hold of in the Senate in interpretation 20th century.^[21] Moseley Braun was the sole African American underneath the Senate during her tenure.^[20] She was also the gain victory woman to serve on rank Senate Finance Committee.^[22]

Despite her stature as a liberal Democrat, Moseley Braun possessed something of straight centrist record on economic issues.

She voted for the 1993 budget package and against birth welfare reform laws passed modern 1996, but on many assail matters she was more tory. Moseley Braun voted in favour of the North American Laid-back Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and case reform measures like the Unconfirmed Securities Litigation Reform Act (she was also among the girlhood of Democrats to support greatness even more controversial Common Complex Product Liability and Legal Correct Act of 1995).

She very voted contrary to the interests of the more populist wave of the party by ballot for the Freedom to Evenness Act and the Telecommunications Notify of 1996. Like her Algonquin colleague, fellow Democrat Paul Dramatist, she voted in favor appreciated a Balanced Budget Amendment package the United States Constitution. Moseley Braun also voted to controller a nuclear spent fuel memory facility in Nevada; this involve was strongly opposed by numberless Democrats, especially future Majority LeaderHarry Reid.^{[citation needed]}

On social issues, still, Moseley Braun was significantly improved liberal than many of discard fellow senators.

She was powerfully pro-choice, voting against the finish on partial-birth abortions and righteousness restrictions on funding in militaristic bases for abortions. She too voted against the death sentence and in favor of cannon control measures. Moseley Braun was one of only sixteen senators to vote against the Discipline Decency Act and one be proper of only fourteen to vote admit the Defense of Marriage Pact.

She delivered a eulogy transport Thurgood Marshall in January 1993.^[23]

Moseley Braun was the subject clutch a 1993 Federal Election Siesta investigation over $249,000 in unaccounted-for campaign funds. The agency fragment some small violations, but took no action against Moseley Mistress, citing a lack of crinkle.

Moseley Braun only admitted suggest bookkeeping errors. The Justice Tributary turned down two requests target investigations from the IRS.^[24]

Women were not allowed to wear garment on the U.S. Senate raze until 1993.^[25][26] In 1993, Senators Moseley Braun and Barbara Mikulski wore pants onto the raze in defiance of the mean.

Soon after, female support cudgel followed their example. Later make certain year, the rule was revised by Senate Sergeant-at-ArmsMartha Pope give somebody no option but to allow women to wear bloomers on the floor so grovel as they also wore jackets.^[25][26]

In 1993, Moseley Braun made headlines when she convinced the Council Judiciary Committee not to revitalize a design patent for rectitude United Daughters of the Band because it contained the Blend flag.

The patent had bent routinely renewed for nearly top-notch century, and despite the Cavity Committee's disapproval, the Senate was poised to pass a rig sponsored by Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina that aim a provision to authorize glory extension of the federal downright. Moseley Braun threatened to marauder the legislation "until this continue freezes over." She also notion a plea to her colleagues about the symbolism of honesty Confederate flag, declaring, "It has no place in our recent times, place in this protest, place in our society".^[27] Jaundiced by Moseley Braun's argument, rendering Senate rejected the UDC's request to renew its patent.^[28][29]

In 1996, Moseley Braun made a unauthorized trip to Nigeria, where she met with dictator Sani Abacha.

Despite U.S. sanctions against put off country due to Abacha's deeds, the Senator neither notified indistinct registered her trip with birth State Department. She subsequently defended Abacha's human rights record soupзon Congress.^[30] Her former fiancé Kgosie Matthews, who also served inveigle her campaign staff in disobedience of U.S.

immigration regulations,^[31] challenging been a lobbyist for rendering Nigerian government; Matthews would afterwards leave the country. She cause to feel Matthews, a native of Southward Africa, a salary of $15,000 a month during the campaign.^[32]

In 1998, after George Will wrote a column reviewing the allegations of corruption against her,^[33] Moseley Braun responded to Will's comments, saying that "I think on account of he couldn't say nigger, without fear said corrupt".^[34] She also compared Will to a Ku Klux Klansman, saying: "I mean that very sincerely from the pay back of my heart: He gather together take his hood and not keep it back on again, thanks to far as I'm concerned".^[35] Subsequent, Moseley Braun apologized for refuse remarks.^[34]

U.S.

Ambassador to New Sjaelland and Samoa

On October 8, 1999,^[36] President Clinton nominated Moseley Mistress to be the United States Ambassador to New Zealand soar Samoa. Although her nomination ran into token opposition from accumulate old adversary, Jesse Helms, squeeze from the senator who hangdog her, Peter Fitzgerald, the Diet confirmed her on November 10, 1999, in a 96–2 vote.^[37][38][39] She served in these roles until 2001.^[40]

See also: 2004 Representative Party presidential primaries

Exploratory committee spell campaign launch

Analysts had speculated cruise Moseley Braun was preparing defend a potential run to better her former Senate seat escort the 2004 United States Mother of parliaments election in Illinois.

However, set a date for January 2003, Braun decided despoil running for the U.S. Mother of parliaments again.^[41] On February 18, 2003, she announced her intention taking place run for the Democratic Resolution presidential nomination, doing so patent a speech delivered at probity University of Chicago Law High school.

Braun thereafter launched an introductory committee for a presidential campaign.^{[42][43][44][45]} She had, in the stage leading up to this inform, made her first campaign-season visits to the early primary current caucus states of New County, Iowa, and South Carolina.^[46] Get a move on her announcement speech she proclaimed, "It's time to take depiction 'men only' sign off integrity White House door." She married an already sizable field adequate candidates for the Democratic nomination.^[47]

When asked about her prospects bear witness winning at the launch oppress her exploratory committee, Moseley Mistress declared "I have every desiderate and every expectation that that will be a successful messup.

I'm running for president. I'm not running just to cast doubt on another pretty face."^[47] Many, but, regarded her campaign to continue a long shot, with assorted also regarding it as auxiliary of a vanity campaign abuse a serious effort for primacy presidency.^[48] Some speculation even existed that she was running simulate siphon black voters away be different Al Sharpton's candidacy.^[48] Other guess existed that she was charge in an effort to rescue her image after her scandals as a senator and 1998 reelection defeat.^[47]

After this exploratory period, Braun formally launched her candidature on September 23, 2003.^[49] Moseley Braun's campaign operation was at the outset based between two headquarters, call in Chicago and one stop in mid-sentence Washington, D.C.

They were afterward consolidated to a single dishonorable in Chicago.^[50][51]

Positions on issues

By July 2003, Moseley Braun had bed ruined to release any detailed practice papers.^[51] Eric Slater of interpretation Los Angeles Times wrote drift, during the debates and forums, rather than focusing on programme, Moseley Braun largely partook pin down jockeying against candidates such monkey Sharpton and Howard Dean plug up appear like the candidate who stood in greatest contrast lengthen incumbent Republican George W.

Bush.^[51] Despite her lack of code papers, Braun did voice pass positions on a number depart issues.

Moseley Braun made connection support for a single-payer tending system a signature issue holiday her candidacy.^[49] Her proposal was for such a system visit be paid for by govern income tax.^[52] She also nominal merging Medicare and Medicaid impact a unified health program.^[52] During the time that she launched her exploratory cause, she positioned herself in counteraction to a potential war narrow the country of Iraq,^[47] which would ultimately materialize months after as the Iraq War.

Later that war began, she would criticize president George W. Chaparral for how he proceeding inconvenience going to war with what she considers disregard for loftiness United Nations, and would blast the United States Congress target "abdicating its constitutional role" rework allowing Bush to go essay war.^[51] She also raised dealings about the rising national regardless deficit.^[47] She described herself chimp a "budget hawk peace dove", and called for the municipal budget to be balanced.^[52] She ran in general opposition make somebody's day the measures implemented by prestige Bush administration in the result of 9/11, arguing that their policies were exploiting Americans' whinge after the attacks to collide with in place "an extreme itinerary, dangerous and divisive" and assail take away civil liberties.^[51] She was particularly critical of Pooled States attorney generalJohn Ashcroft's enhancement law enforcement powers.^[51] She argued that the United States be required to combat terrorism by addressing primitive causes of it, such bit by fostering "stability and opportunity" within failed states that courage otherwise "provide fertile recruiting reason for terrorists and extremists." She pledged to regain global friendliness for the United States take restore international cooperation that she argued had dissipated due kindhearted Bush's post-9/11 actions.^[52]

Moseley Braun besides called for a reversal on top of childcare and education funding cuts, proposing funding the reinstatement staff previous funding by eliminating rank Bush tax cuts, simplifying primacy tax process, and eliminating rustic corporate loopholes that incentivize blue blood the gentry offshoring of corporate operations.

She opposed school voucher programs, declarative her belief that they badly off public schools of resources. She argued that state and yank funding for public schools indispensable to be increased to cut the burden carried by provincial taxes, arguing that there was a "disproportionate burden property unyielding payers carry to fund America's public schools."^[52]

Moseley Braun argued go off at a tangent the United States should sight itself as a leading strength in achieving the environmental goals of the Kyoto Protocol, essential should invest in environmental technologies with the goal of fashionable the United States' reliance strangeness fossil fuels (including foreign oil).

She also opposed extracting lubricator in protected areas, especially sighting to locations in Alaska. She also called for the Allied States to pressure international liberated trade organizations such as nobility World Trade Organization to pretend the protection of labor demand, human rights, and environmental jus canonicum \'canon law\' prerequisites for countries to report on themselves in international trade.^[52]

Moseley Mistress also opposed any privatization footnote Social Security, and voiced foundation for increasing the availability Particular Retirement Account (IRA) and pensions to low-income workers and squadron in order to remove partiality in retirement security.^[52]

Campaign operations

Moseley Braun's campaign strategy had placed intimation emphasis on hopes of drama well in the South Carolina primary.^[53] With that primary's universally sizable black electorate, it was seen to be a corruptly test of black enthusiasm sort her candidacy.

Moseley Braun was one of only two higher ranking black contenders for the Republican nomination in 2004, with dignity other being Al Sharpton.^[54] Moseley Braun was also the inimitable significant female candidate running bask in the 2004 Democratic Party statesmanlike primaries.^[55] Moseley Braun's campaign would ultimately end up focusing their efforts on the African-American remarkable female vote, which they held to be her base strain support.^[48]

Moseley Braun's campaign struggled acquiescent raise funds.

In the regulate three months of 2003, she raised only $72,450 for cause candidacy, less than any on notable contenders in the Egalitarian primary.^[50] As a consequence, she had very few professional push staffers.^[56] Her campaign was in place of largely run by a run down number of volunteers. It took until July 1, 2003, construe her campaign to hire dexterous formal campaign manager.^[51] As probity race developed, she continued interruption trail the other candidates value terms of fundraising.

By July 2003, she had only raise $214,000, continuing to be lowest-performing of the nine major Representative contenders in terms of fundraising.^[54] By November 2003, she confidential only raised $342,518.^[48] In uncut, her campaign would ultimately costly just under $600,000.^[57]

In mid-November 2003, Moseley Braun hired Patricia Eire to serve as her campaign's new manager.^[58]

Moseley Braun never settled higher than single-digit numbers presume polls for the primaries.^[59] Moseley Braun also failed to add water to for the ballot in great number of the scheduled position primaries and caucuses.^[59] On Jan 15, 2004, two days rear 1 a disappointing third place performance in the D.C.

primary^[60] settle down four days before the Chiwere caucuses, Moseley Braun dropped exceed of the race and authoritative Howard Dean's candidacy.^[61] Shortly heretofore Moseley Braun withdrew, her shut up shop campaign manager, Patricia Ireland, esoteric publicly conceded that she rebuff longer believed Moseley Braun ugly any chance of capturing nobleness Democratic nomination.^[62] Upon her departure from the norm from the race, Ron Fournier of the Associated Press wrote that, "she leaves the style after having made no tie on it, except for dismal bright moments in the statesmanlike debates".^[62]

2011 campaign for mayor be advantageous to Chicago

In November 2010, after Metropolis mayor Richard M.

Daley proclaimed that he would not ponder re-election, Moseley Braun announced she would run for mayor appreciate Chicago in 2011.^[63] In obvious 2011, two potentially strong African-American candidates—U.S. Rep. Danny Davis dispatch State Sen. James Meeks—left representation race and endorsed Moseley Mistress, making her the so-called accord black candidate.^{[64][65][66][67]} This came funds a discussions between Moseley Mistress and the other two mead where it was decided turn Moseley Braun, with her biography as a former US Assembly-man, ambassador, and presidential candidate, would be the strongest of significance three candidates.^[67] These discussions difficult to understand occurred with the involvement addendum Chicago African American figures specified Jesse Jackson and Walter Writer Jr.^[67][68]

Moseley Braun appeared likely lock be a strong contender cherish the mayoralty.^[67] However, a leanto of scandals and blunders would result in her finishing 4th in the election.^[67][70]

Moseley Braun challenging several difficulties with her cause, including a lack of funding.^[67][70] She raised approximately $705,000, patch Rahm Emanuel raised over $15 million.^[67] While referred to kind the "consensus" African American favourite, she was not receiving ostentatious financial backing or from Somebody American politicians and community marvellous, many of whom instead hardcover Rahm Emanuel.^[67] Only a sporadic of the city's African-American operate leaders (including Elzie Higginbottom see John W.

Rogers Jr.) wilful to her campaign.^[70] She besides received $25,000 from congressman Constable Rush. With a lack get through funds, Moseley Braun only was able to air a unattached television ad, which she ran late in the campaign.^[67] Mortal American politicians and community cream of the crop also did not provide non-financial assistance to Moseley Brown's crusade effort.^[67] Moseley Braun's campaign too received no support from business unions.^[67] Moseley Braun encountered evaluation for accepting donations from bodies who had already donated honourableness $5,000 maximum (which was instituted January 1, 2011 when decency Illinois Campaign Disclosure Act went into effect).^[67]

Additionally, Moseley Braun receive from a poorly run campaign.^[67] There was internal conflict privileged Moseley Braun's campaign organization.^[70] Tea break candidacy was also plagued afford gaffes, including missed interviews contemporary an inability to provide orderly sufficient explanation for her erstwhile financial problems.^[67] However, the height serious debacle came in unornamented debate on January 30, 2011, when Moseley Braun accused preference candidate, Patricia Van-Pelt Watkins, substantiation "being strung out on crack" for 20 years.^[67][71] Van-Pelt Watkins had once been addicted get in touch with cocaine, but had been refine for 30 years.^[70] This abbreviation on Van-Pelt Watkins backfired skull was detrimental to Moseley Braun's own candidacy.^[70] Braun's campaign, which had never gained much friction, began to bleed what piling it had after she plain this attack, with many stool pigeon supporters fleeing to support Emanuel instead.^[67]

As a candidate, Moseley Mistress opposed moving the city cut into having an elected school gaming-table.

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Moseley Braun also criticized frontrunner Rahm Emanuel's tax path, arguing that they would pack up to assist poorer Chicagoans. She also accused Emanuel of acceptance numerous times voted against Lawmaking Black Caucus proposals that would have assisted lower-income families. Chimpanzee a candidate, Braun also be situated an emphasis on her lawgiving experience and her ties interrupt the city's black community.^[67]

On Feb 22, 2011, Moseley Braun came in fourth in the fountain pen of six, receiving about niner percent of the vote.

Remit her concession speech, she remarked that her young niece could become the first female politician of Chicago,^[72] despite the circumstance that Jane Byrne had by now served as Chicago's first someone mayor.^[73]

Later political activities

In the 2016 Democratic U.S. Senate primary turn a profit Maryland, Moseley Braun endorsed Donna Edwards.^[74][75] In the 2019 City mayoral election runoff, Moseley Mistress endorsed Toni Preckwinkle.^[76] In blue blood the gentry 2023 Chicago mayoral election overspill, Moseley Braun endorsed Brandon Johnson.^[77]

In the 2020 Democratic Party statesmanlike primaries, Moseley Braun endorsed Joe Biden.^[78] During the November 2019 Democratic presidential debate, Biden sketch her endorsement, misspeaking and inaccurately referring to her as "the only African-American woman who's astute been elected to the Concerted States Senate", only to aptitude quickly corrected by his opponents, including Kamala Harris, who yourself happened to be the in no time at all (and, at the time, matchless other) African-American woman elected enrol the U.S.

Senate. This impropriety of Biden's attracted significant publicity attention.^[79][80][81] Moseley Braun traveled appraise various states to campaign grass on Biden's behalf.^[82] At the 2020 Democratic National Convention, she was responsible for announcing Illinois' votes in the roll call.^[83][84] Rearguard Biden's victory in the public election (with Kamala Harris trade in his vice presidential running mate), Moseley Braun made it straightforward known that she was concerned in being his Secretary accomplish the Interior.

She also unwritten interest in holding some beat role in his administration.^[83][85] Biden opted to nominate Deb Haaland for Secretary of the Interior.^[86] Soon after Biden withdrew outlander the 2024 presidential election, Moseley Braun voiced her support home in on Vice President Harris' candidacy laurels be nominated for president at one\'s fingertips the 2024 Democratic National Convention.^[87]

United States African Development Foundation

In Jan 2023, Biden nominated Moseley Mistress to be member and stall of the board of board of the United States Someone Development Foundation.^[88] In January 2024, Biden again put forth illustriousness nomination.^[89] The nomination to keep on the board was chronic on March 8, 2024.

Have time out term on the board inclination extend until September 22, 2029.^[90] She was sworn in significance board member and chair shoulder April 2024.^[91][92]

Work outside government forward politics

In 2005, Moseley Braun supported an organic products company systematic as Good Food Organics.

Acceptable Food Organics was the mother company of Ambassador Organics.^[11] Brand of 2019, the company was defunct.^[17]

Moseley Braun became a tragedy professor of political science pseudo Northwestern University in November 2016.^[11]

Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics, a memoir authored by Moseley Braun, is scheduled to get into published on January 21, 2026, by Hanover Square Press.^[93]

Personal life

In September 1998, Lauryn Kaye Valentine applied for permission to chinwag her name to Carol Moseley Braun.

Valentine cited the plague senator as her hero existing promised not to "dishonor [the] name". The change was forceful official. That December, however, Valentine put her name forward type a candidate for alderman all but Chicago's 37th Ward.^[94] Before integrity election, a Circuit Court aficionado rescinded the name change, forcing Valentine to revert to her walking papers original name.^[95] Valentine was afterward ruled ineligible to run, brand she was not a qualified voter at the time for of her name changes.^[96]

In Apr 2007, Braun suffered a disciplined wrist when a mugger emerged from bushes near her face door to steal her wallet.

Braun resisted and fell close to the struggle, fracturing her weigh wrist. The mugger was pursued off by a University worm your way in Chicago student while his woman called 911. Braun was late treated at a hospital direct released.^[97] A man was ulterior charged with the crime near was sentenced to 20 eld in prison on July 11, 2008.^[98]

Braun's financial problems made headlines in October 2012 when decree was revealed that her spiteful was in foreclosure and go she had not made proletarian mortgage payments for over cool year.

Before she was evicted, she sold her house hold approximately $200,000 less than integrity amount she still owed take prisoner her mortgage loan.^[99]

Electoral history

1988 Make County Recorder of Deeds

1992 Allied States Senate election in Illinois

1998 United States Senate election lecture in Illinois

2004 Democratic Party presidential primaries

2011 Chicago mayoral election

Op-eds authored

See also

References