September 30, 1960

Blanche Lincoln was born Blanche Meyers Lambert in Helena (Phillips County) into a seventh-generation Arkansas farm family. Later, she became the youngest woman elected to the U.S. Senate and the first woman from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway to be elected to the Senate.

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