Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from New Hampshire since 2009. She was also the first elected female governor of New Hampshire and the first woman elected as both a governor and a U.S. Senator. She and her husband served as Al Gore’s New Hampshire campaign manager during the 2000 Democratic presidential primary. She worked on several campaigns, including Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign and Gary Hart’s 1984 campaign.
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Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from New Hampshire since 2009. She is the first female U.S. senator in New Hampshire’s history. She was also the first elected female governor of New Hampshire and the first woman elected as both a governor and a U. S. Senator. She served as Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics before resigning to run for the U. S. Senate again in the 2008 election. She and her husband served as Al Gore’s New Hampshire campaign manager during the 2000 Democratic presidential primary. She has three children with Lebanese-American attorney and political operative Bill Sha heen. She worked on several campaigns, including Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign and Gary Hart’s 1984 campaign. In 2004, she was named national chair of John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. She declined to run as governor for a fourth term instead choosing to run instead for the United States Senate. She will be reelected to a third term in 2020 over Republican Corky Messner. The Shaheens have three children together and have been married for more than 30 years. They have a son and a daughter who are both college students and have a daughter and a son-in-law who are also in the New Hampshire Senate. The couple has a son who is studying to be a physician. She also has a daughter with her husband, who is a lawyer and a father-of-three who is also a former New Hampshire state senator.
She had a son with former Gov. Chris Sununu, who was elected to Congress in 2002. She lost her bid for re-election in 2008 to Republican John E. SununU. In 2014, she became the second Democrat from New. Hampshire to be re elected to the US Senate and thefirst since Thomas J. McIntyre in 1972. In 2000, she refused to renew her no-new-taxes pledge, becoming the first New Hampshire governor in 38 years to win an election without making that pledge. In 2001, she tried to implement a 2.5% sales tax, the first broad-based tariff of its kind in New. Hampden County, New Hampshire, which has never had a sales tax. In 2002, she ran for the US. Senate unsuccessfully against Republican nominee John Sununo. In 2003, she served as national chair for John Kerry’s presidential campaign in September 2003. She later served as director of Harvard’S Institute of. Politics until April 2005, succeeding former U. s. Representative and Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman. In 2008, she won a rematch for the Senate against Republican John A. Sununu in a rematch. In 2010, she lost a rematch against Republican John E. Lamontagne. In 2012, she defeated Lamontagne by a margin of 66 to 31 percent. She became the first Democratic senator from N.H. since 1980 to win a second term. In 2013 she was elected governor of the state.
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