Sara I. Gideon is an American politician who served as the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. She was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Maine. Gideon’s father is from India and her mother, a psychiatrist, is a second-generation Armenian American.
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Sara I. Gideon is an American politician who served as the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. Gideon was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Maine, losing to incumbent Republican Susan Collins. Gideon’s father is from India and her mother, a psychiatrist, is a second-generation Armenian American. She graduated from East Greenwich High School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, in 1989. In 1994, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in international affairs from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, D. C. In 2004, Gideon moved to Freeport, Maine. In October 2009, she won a seat on the Freeport Town Council.
She served until 2012, and was the council’s vice chair beginning in 2011. In 2016, she was elected as Speaker by the House. In 2018, the Maine Legislature under Gideon’s speakership passed several key climate change bills, including a measure requiring Maine to achieve 80 percent renewable energy by 2030 and 100 percent by 2050. In 2019, Gideon faced an election ethics complaint for accepting reimbursements for her personal political donations from her own PAC. The campaign said that it had reimbursed the federal government USD 3,250 for the violations and closed the PAC.
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