Jeanne Shaheen

Jeanne Shaheen ( born January 28, 1947 in Saint Charles, Missouri as Cynthia Jeanne Bowers ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. She was from 1997 to 2003 Governor of the State of New Hampshire, which she represents in January 2009 in the U.S. Senate.

Life

After high school, she attended the Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, where she reached the bachelor's degree in English; then she moved to the University of Mississippi, where she received the master. Shaheen taught according to their period of study at a high school in Mississippi and then moved in 1973 to New Hampshire, where she worked as a teacher.

Shaheen began to become politically active. She was elected in 1990 to the Senate from New Hampshire. 1996, 1998 and 2000, they were each elected Governor of New Hampshire. Shaheen is the first U.S. politician who has managed to be elected to both the Governor of a State as well as senator. She was also the first woman to be elected Governor of New Hampshire.

In 2002 she gave up another run for the governorship and applied instead for a seat in the U.S. Senate. However, she was defeated by Republican John E. Sununu. In advance of the 2004 presidential election she supported John Kerry. Shaheen was in April 2005, Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics and followed the former Director Dan Glickman. On 4 November 2008 she appeared for the second time against John E. Sununu to the fight for a Senate seat and sat down, this time by a vote share of 52 percent; Sununu came to 45 percent.

Jeanne Shaheen is married to lawyer Bill Shaheen and together they have two children.

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