Virginia’s newest member of the U.S. Congress is Jennifer McClellan, whose historic election Tuesday night gives her the important distinction of being the first-ever Black woman elected in Virginia to the U.S. House of Representatives.
McClellan won the special election to fill the U.S. Congressional seat of late Rep. Donald McEachin, who died in November following complications from cancer weeks after he was reelected.
The Democrat who served in Virginia’s General Assembly for 18 years trounced her Republican opponent Leon Benjamin with nearly 75% of the vote and 95% of the precincts returning votes, the Richmond Times Dispatch reported.
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