Florence Pendleton

Education

Howard University.

Career

As the first shadow senator of the District of Columbia, her main goal was to promote the efforts of the District to gain full voting rights, alongside her counterpart in Seat 2. She was inaugurated as the first ever shadow senator on January 3, 1991. Her re-election bid in 2006 failed when Philip Pannell successfully challenged that she failed to have 2,000 valid signatures to get onto the ballot, having only 1,559.

Her last day in office was on January 3, 2007.

1990

In the general election, the top two vote getters were elected as Shadow senators of each seat, with Pendleton taking Seat 1 and Jackson taking Seat 2. 1994

2000

2006

November 6, 1990 — elected shadow senator when office was created

November 8, 1994 — reelected shadow senator

November 7, 2000 — reelected shadow senator

Achievements

• She ran as a write-in candidate, but only won 1,363 votes as Michael Donald Brown cruised to victory with 62,415 votes over her and Pannell"s 21,552 votes to win the Democratic Primary.

Views

She defended her seat in 2000 by cruised to victory in the primary election over Janet Helms, beating her 84%-14%.