Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality. She served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. She was the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election alongside Arizona Senator John McCain. She hosted TLC’s Sarah Palin’s Alaska in 2010–11 and Amazing America with Sarah Palin on the Sportsman Channel in 2014–15. Her book Going Rogue has sold more than two million copies.
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Sarah Louise Palin (born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality. She served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. She was the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election alongside Arizona Senator John McCain. Palin was elected to the Wasilla city council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996. She hosted TLC’s Sarah Palin’s Alaska in 2010–11, and Amazing America with Sarah Palin on the Sportsman Channel in 2014–15. Her book Going Rogue has sold more than two million copies. She has endorsed and campaigned for the Tea Party movement as well as several candidates in multiple election cycles, prominently including Donald Trump for president in 2016. Palin is of English, Irish, and German ancestry. She is married to Todd Palin, her high school sweetheart, and they have three children. In August 1988, she eloped with Todd Palin and moved to Wasilla, Alaska, to be with him. In 2006, she became the youngest person and the first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska. She won the Miss Alaska pageant in 1984, where she won the title of \”Miss Congeniality\”. She played the flute in the talent portion of the contest. In 2002, she completed the second of two consecutive three-year terms as president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. In May 1999, Palin became a contretemps contemps with the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, a local newspaper.
In 1999, she ran for reelection against John Stein and won, 909 votes to 292. Her opponent, Stein, said that Palin had introduced abortion, gun rights, and high taxes as campaign issues. Palin has been a Republican since registering in 1982. She became the first Republican female vice presidential nominee and the second female vice president nominee of a major party, after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. In 2003, after an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor, she was appointed chair of the Alaskan Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, responsible for overseeing the state’s oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency. She ran for mayor in 1996, defeating incumbent mayor John Stein 651 to 310. In 1996, Palin won the second consecutive two-year term as mayor. In 2000, she won a third term and became the second woman to serve three terms as mayor of the city of Wasillas, Alaska. In 2008, Palin ran for president of Alaska and won a fourth term. In 2010, she served as vice presidential candidate for the Republican National Committee. In 2011, she resigned from her position as vice president to focus on her health care reform efforts. In 2012, she announced that she would not run for re-election as governor in 2012. In 2013, she said she would run for president again in 2012, but later changed her mind. In 2014, Palin launched an online news network called the Sarah Palin Channel, which was closed on July 4, 2015.
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