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       Here is a look at the life of former US Senator Carol Moseley Braun.

       Personal Birth date: August 16, 1947

       Birth place: Chicago, Illinois

       Birth name: Carol Elizabeth Moseley

       Father: Joseph Moseley, policeman

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       Mother: Edna (Davie) Moseley, medical assistant

       Marriage: Michael Braun (1973-1986, divorced)

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       Children: Matthew, 1977

       Education: University of Illinois, B.A., 1969; University of Chicago, J.D., 1972

       Other Facts First African American woman elected to the US Senate.

       As a US senator, Moseley Braun was the first woman to serve on the Senate Finance Committee.

       Timeline 1973-1977 - Serves as assistant US attorney.

       1978-1988 - Member of the Illinois House of Representatives. Becomes the first African American woman to serve as assistant majority leader.

       1988-1992 - Recorder of deeds for Cook County, Illinois. Is the first woman and first African American to hold an executive office in Cook County.

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       Carol Moseley Braun's victory speech

       1993-1999 - US senator from Illinois.

       1998 - Defeated in the 1998 Senate election.

       1999-2001 - American ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.

       February 18, 2003 - Officially announces that she will be running for the Democratic nomination for president.

       January 15, 2004 - Drops out of the race for president and endorses Howard Dean.

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       2005 - Founds an organic products company, Good Food Organics, which is the parent company of Ambassador Organics.

       April 27, 2007 - Suffers a broken wrist after being attacked by a mugger outside her Chicago home.

       November 20, 2010 - Officially announces her candidacy for mayor of Chicago.

       February 22, 2011 - Loses to Rahm Emanuel in Chicago’s mayoral race.

       September 2016 - Becomes a visiting professor of political science at Northwestern University.