Top 10 Jewish-American Political Firsts

1. Joseph Lieberman: Senator from Connecticut and first Jewish-American on the Presidential ballot (as Vice President) of any major political party (2000 election).
2. Francis Salvador: First Jewish-American elected to a General Assembly in the colonies (1775). Also the first Jewish-American to be killed in the Revolutionary War.
3. David Levy Yulee: First Jewish-American Senator (Florida – 1845).
4. Judah Benjamin: First Jewish-American to be offered a Supreme Court appointment (he declined to be nominated in 1853 and 1854). First Jewish-American appointee to a Cabinet position (Cabinet of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy from 1861-1865).
5. Eric Cantor: First Jewish-American majority leader of the House of Representatives (2011).
6. Lewis Levin: First Jewish-American congressman. In office from 1845-1851.
7. Florence Kahn: First Jewish-American woman to serve in Congress (California – 1925).
8. David Emanuel: First Jewish-American Governor (Georgia – 1801).
9. Henry Kissinger: First Jewish-American Secretary of State (1973).
10. Diane Feinstein: First Jewish-American Female Senator (California - 1992).