Anne Northup

Anne Meagher Northup ( born January 22, 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American politician. Between 1997 and 2007, she represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Anne Meagher, so her maiden name, visited the Sacred Heart Academy in Louisville and then until 1970, the Saint Mary's College until 1966. During this time she married Woody Northup, with which they should have six children. Her younger sister Mary was gold medalist in swimming competitions at the Olympic Games of 1984 in Los Angeles.

Anne Northup was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1986 and 1997 she was a Member of the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1996, it was the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they succeeded the Democrat Mike Ward on January 3, 1997. After four elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2007, five legislative sessions. There she was a member of the Appropriations Committee. In her time as a Congressman, the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell.

In the 2006 elections Northup defeated by Democrat John Yarmuth, against whom they also took unsuccessfully in 2008. In 2007, she failed in the primaries of their party for gubernatorial election in Kentucky. In July 2009, Anne Northup was appointed by President Barack Obama in the Consumer Protection Commission.