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In 1972, Representative Andy Jacobs persuaded Carson into running for office in the Indiana legislature. She served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1973 to 1977, when she was elected to the Indiana State Senate, serving until 1990. In 1996, she became the first African American and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress when she was elected as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Throughout her career, she was known for defending civil rights and the poor, determined to help those whose lives might have resembled her own childhood and e

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