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I serached the Internet to find out about this senate stuff. The Theta one was Nancy Kassenbaum... she is considered the first woman elected to senate in her own right.
Here is what I found...
Out of the first five female senators, the three women who served a full Senate term all succeeded their husbands. Hattie Caraway (D. Ark.) initially filled her dead husband's term but was twice re-elected. Margaret Chase Smith (R. Me.) succeeded her husband in the House, then ran for the Senate on her own. Maurine Neuberger (D. Ore.) replaced her incumbent husband when he died two days before the deadline to file for reelection. It was 1978 before a woman was elected to a full term who was not a political widow succeeding her husband; Nancy Landon Kassenbaum (R. KS) was a political daughter who had not held public office prior to her election to the Senate.
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