Cynthia Ann McKinney was born on March 17, 1955 is a earlier United States Representative and the 2008 Green Party nominee for President of the United States. McKinney worked as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives during 1993–2003 and 2005–2007, initially representing Georgia's 11th Congressional District and later Georgia's 4th Congressional District. She is the 1st African-American woman to have represented Georgia in the House.
In the 1992 election, McKinney was elected in the freshly reformed 11th District, and was re-elected in 1994. When her district was redrawn and refigured due to the Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Miller v. Johnson, McKinney was simply elected from the new 4th District in the 1996 election, and was re-elected two times without substantive opposition.
McKinney was won by Denise Majette in the 2002 Democratic primary, in part due to Republican crossover voting in Georgia's open primary election, which admits anyone from any party to vote in any party primary, and in part due to her controversial data, which comprised a suggestion that George W. Bush knew in advance of the September 11 attacks.
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