Gavel given to Nancy Pelosi when she became the first woman elected to serve as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in 2007

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Description
Nancy Pelosi received this gavel when she was elected to be the first woman to serve as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in 2007. When Pelosi was elected to congress in 1987, she was one of twenty-five women—two in the Senate and twenty-three in the House. She became the first woman to serve as a House party whip (2002) and minority leader (2011). Nancy Pelosi served as Speaker of the House from 2007-2011 and from 2019-2023.
ID Number
2018.0046.02
accession number
2018.0046
catalog number
2018.0046.02
Object Name
gavel
Measurements
overall: 35 cm x 11 cm x 5 cm; 13 25/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 1 31/32 in
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Political History: Political History, Women's History Collection
Government, Politics, and Reform
National Museum of American History
web subject
Women's History
Record ID
nmah_1895921
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-0dfc-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
Gavel presented to Nancy Pelosi in 2007 when she was sworn in as the first woman speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
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