page_title: Jeanne Givens
section_title: 1988
hierarchical_section_title: Jeanne Givens / U.S. House of Representatives campaigns / 1988
caption_attribution_description: English: Representative Larry Craig in 1989
context_page_description: Jeanne Givens is an American politician who served in the Idaho House of Representatives from the 4th district as a member of the Democratic Party. She is a member of the Coeur d'Alene tribe and was the first Native American woman elected to the Idaho House of Representatives. Givens was also the first Native American woman to run for a seat in the United States Congress.
  Givens was born in Plummer, Idaho, and was raised in San Jose, California and on the Coeur d'Alene reservation in Plummer. She is related to multiple prominent members of the Coeur d'Alene tribe. In the 1980s she was appointed to multiple board positions by Governor John Evans and unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Idaho House of Representatives in 1982, before winning in 1984. In 1988, and 1990, she ran in Idaho's 1st congressional district for a seat in the United States House of Representatives, but was defeated both times.
  During her tenure in the Idaho House of Representatives she served on the Indian Affairs, Business, Education, and Health and Welfare committees.
context_section_description: On April 13, 1988, Givens announced that she would seek the Democratic nomination for Idaho's 1st congressional district against incumbent Republican Representative Larry Craig and filed to run on April 15. She stated that would serve in the grassroots tradition of Gracie Pfost, the first woman to represent Idaho in the United States House of Representatives. She won the Democratic nomination against Bruce Robinson and David Shepard, but was defeated in the general election by Craig.
  During the campaign she fired her campaign manager Carmi McLean with McLean claiming that it was due to McLean's disagreements with Ray Givens. Mike Brush was selected to replace McLean as Givens' campaign manager. Givens was the first Native American woman to run for a seat in the United States Congress and would later be followed by Ada Deer.
caption: In 1988, Givens ran against Representative Larry Craig in Idaho's 1st congressional district
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