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Hailing from central Brooklyn, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke has represented the community that raised her since 2007. She is the proud daughter of Jamaican immigrants.
Before being elected to the United States House of Representatives, Congresswoman Clarke served on New York’s City Council, representing the 40th District. She succeeded her pioneering mother, former City Council Member Dr. Una S. T. Clarke, making them the first mother-daughter succession in the City Council’s history. She cosponsored City Council resolutions that opposed the war in Iraq, criticized the federal USA PATRIOT Act, and called for a national moratorium on the death penalty.
Clarke has been a member of the Congressional Black Caucus since coming to Congress in 2007 and was elected Chair for the 119th Congress.
