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Laphonza Butler

1979–

United States

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Laphonza Romanique Butler ( lə-FON-zə; born May 11, 1979) is an American labor union official and former politician who served as a United States senator from California from 2023 to 2024. Butler began her career as a union organizer, and served as president of California SEIU State Council from 2013 to 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, she was a regent of the University of California system from 2018 to 2021, and the president of EMILY's List from 2021 to 2023.

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