Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

Stephanie Herseth Sandlin ( born December 3, 1970 in Aberdeen, South Dakota) is an American politician. In the years 2004 to 2011, she represented the state of South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Origin and private career

Stephanie Herseth Sandlin comes from a prominent political family in South Dakota. Her grandfather, Ralph Herseth was 1959-1961 Governor of South Dakota. Your grandmother Lorna Herseth was as Secretary of State executive official in South Dakota and her father Lars was for two decades a member of the legislature, and in 1986 an unsuccessful candidate in the gubernatorial elections. Stephanie Herseth attended Groton High School and Georgetown University in Washington, where she studied law until 1997. She then worked as a lawyer.

Political rise

Stephanie Herseth was a member of the Democratic Party. In 2002, she ran for the first time for the U.S. House of Representatives. In these elections, they just going down against Governor Bill Janklow of the Republican Party. After this was sentenced to a 100 - day jail sentence for manslaughter and therefore had to give up his office in the U.S. Congress, Herseth was elected in a by-election with 51% of the vote against Larry Diedrich his successor. In the regular congressional elections of 2004, she sat down 53.4 % compared again by Diedrich; in the elections of 2006 and 2008, she was able to hold each. At the 2010 elections the Republican Kristi Noem defeated them and retired in 2011 from out of Congress.

She was a member of the Committees on Agriculture, dealing with the mineral resources of Veterans Affairs, and for global warming and energy. During the presidential campaign of 2008, it supported the successful candidacy of Barack Obama.

Since March 31, 2007, she is with Max Sandlin, a former Congressman from Texas, married. In December 2008, her son Zachary was born.