Maggie Hassan

Margaret " Maggie " Wood Hassan ( born February 27, 1958 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American politician. She's since January 3, 2013 Governor of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.

Life

Private

Margaret Wood is the youngest of three children of Margaret Byers and Robert Coldwell Wood. Her father served as an advisor to U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served under his successor Lyndon B. Johnson from January 7 to January 20, 1969 for two weeks as U.S. Minister of Construction. She is married to Thomas Hassan, since September 2009 principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. From the marriage were two children, son Ben and daughter Meg.

Career

Hassan studied law, received her bachelor's degree from Brown University and her Juris Doctor from Northeastern University in Boston. From 1985 to 1992 she worked as a lawyer in the law firm Palmer & Dodge in Boston. Later she worked as a legal consultant to the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Mid-1990s, she came to New Hampshire, where the incumbent governor Jeanne Shaheen it referred to the Committee on Education and Finance in 1999. It was Hassan's first step into politics.

Political career

Hassan ran for the first time in 2002 for a seat in the Senate from New Hampshire, but was defeated the Democratic candidate their Republican opponents, the incumbent Senator Russell Prescott. In 2004, she tried again and was able to displace Prescott with 52 to 48 percentage points with success from his office. 2008 Hassan was elected to a faction leader of the majority party of the Senate. As Prescott, however, again in 2010 ran against Hassan, this was defeated by 47 to 53 percentage points.

In October 2011, she announced her intention to run for the office of Governor of New Hampshire. In the election, held on November 6, 2012, she won over her Republican opponent Ovide Lamontagne M. with 54 to 42 percent.