Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton will retire from Congress after serving the people of Washington, D.C., since 1991, she announced Tuesday.
Norton, 88, is a Democrat who has represented the nation's capital in the House of Representatives for 35 years and is its lone voice in Congress.
She called her time in Congress a "privilege" and said she never wavered in her commitment to represent her constituents.
"Time and again, D.C. residents entrusted me to fight for them at the federal level, and I have not yielded," Norton said in a news release announcing her retirement.
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