United States Senate career of Rebecca Sugar

The United States Senate career of Rebecca Sugar, an American television animator and musician, began shortly after Senator Dianne Feinstein's resignation. Sugar, a Republican from California, won a special election to the Senate by defeating a Democratic incumbent. She became the first California Republican to become a senator since John Seymour in 1992, the first woman to represent the state in the Senate as a Republican, and the first former animator to effectively turn to legislative politics.