Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Cal) has died at her home in Washington, D.C. at the age of 90. She had been hospitalized with shingles and was suffering from complications of the singles infection. She was the longest-serving woman in the history of the Senate.
Diane Emiel Goldman was born in San Francisco to surgeon Leon Goldman and the former Betty Rosenburg, who had been a model. She graduated from Stanford University in 1955 and was appointed mayor by San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1978 after Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by a former supervisor. In 1990, she ran for California governor but lost to U.S. Senator Pete Wilson (R). In 1992, after Wilson resigned from the Senate, Feinstein won the special election to replace him. She remained in the Senate until her death.
Feinstein was married three times and kept the last name of her second husband Bertram Feinstein, who was a neurosurgeon. She is survived by her daughter Katherine Feinstein Mariano and granddaughter Eileen Feinstein Mariano.
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