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Rebecca Ann Felton, née Rebecca Ann Latimer, (born June 10, 1835, near Decatur, Ga., U.S.—died Jan. 24, 1930, Atlanta, Ga.), American political activist, writer, and lecturer, the first woman seated in the U.S. Senate. Rebecca Latimer was graduated first in her class from the Madison Female College, Madison, Georgia, in 1852 and the following year married William H. Felton, a local physician active in liberal Democratic politics. She assisted her husband in his political career (as a U.S. co...

President Donald Trump inherited more than 120 vacancies on the lower federal courts and one Supreme Court vacancy when he took office on January 20, 2017. Trump made filling the Supreme Court vacancy one of his first priorities, and Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate in time to join the Court for the end of its 2016–2017 term. Now the President’s focus has turned to the appellate and district court vacancies. The Senate confirmed Trump’s first appeals court nominee, Amul Thapar, to ...