After a long battle with several serious health issues, Senator Dianne Feinstein passed away Friday morning.

From Fox News. California Senator Dianne Feinstein has died, sources tell Fox News. She was 90.

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The longtime senator had suffered from extensive health issues for more than a year, leading many to wonder about her fitness for office. Her cause of death was unclear as of Friday morning.

Feinstein was present in the Senate on Wednesday and cast a vote at 11:45 a.m. ET, according to the congressional record.

However, she missed two votes later in the afternoon. …

Feinstein, the longest-serving female senator ever, was first elected to the role in 1992. …

Prior to serving as a senator, Feinstein spent nine years as San Francisco County Supervisor, beginning in 1969. She then became mayor of the city in 1978 and was elected to two four-year terms.

“Senator Feinstein’s career has been one of firsts,” her website biography … says. “She was the first woman president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the first woman mayor of San Francisco, the first woman elected Senator of California, the first woman member and first woman ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the first woman to chair the Senate Rules and Administration Committee and the first woman to chair the Senate Intelligence Committee.” …

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(Excerpt from Fox News. Photo Credit: By Benjamin Dunn – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)