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Openly gay Jewish candidate makes history with Colorado win
By Haaretz Service
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Jared Schutz Polis, 33, made history on Tuesday by being the first openly gay non-incumbent male elected to the United States Congress.

Polis, a Jew and a Democrat, will represent Colorado's 2nd District.

Another Jewish candidate to join Congress for the first time was John Adler, a Democrat who won an open seat in Trenton, New Jersey, after Republican Jim Saxton, who held the seat for 20 years, retired this year.
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All six Jewish freshmen in the U.S. House of Representatives will return to Washington in January, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Wednesday.

The lawmakers, all Democrats who won their re-election bids on Tuesday, are: Steve Kagen in Wisconsin, Paul Hodes in New Hampshire, Ron Klein in Florida, John Yarmuth in Kentucky, Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona and Steve Cohen in Tennessee.

Kagen had the smallest margin of victory - about six points in a rematch of his 2006 race with Republican John Gard. All the others won at least 55 percent of the vote. That included Giffords, whose race against Arizona Senate president Tim Bee pitted former elementary and middle school classmates against each other.
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