By Bry'onna Mention· Updated November 9, 2022
Progressive Democrat Summer Lee won election to the House during the 2022 midterm.
Defeating Republican candidate Mike Doyle in the 12th Congressional District race, Lee became the first Black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania.
Lee is familiar with being the center of history-making headlines. In 2018, she was the first African-American woman from the region elected to the state House in Harrisburg.
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