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Jan 28, 1947 St. Charles, Missouri, United States 77 years old
United States Senator from New Hampshire
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About Jeanne Shaheen
- Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen (née Bowers; January 28, 1947) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from New Hampshire.
- A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first female U.S.
- Senator in New Hampshire's history, was the first female Governor of New Hampshire, and the first woman elected as both Governor and a U.S.
- Senator in American history.After serving two terms in the New Hampshire Senate, Shaheen was elected governor in 1996 and reelected in 1998 and 2000.
- In 2002 she ran for the United States Senate unsuccessfully against Republican nominee John E.
- Sununu.
- She served as Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics before resigning to run for the U.S.
- Senate again in the 2008 election, defeating Sununu in a rematch.
- She is the current dean of New Hampshire's congressional delegation. Shaheen became the first Democratic Senator from New Hampshire since John A.
- Durkin, who was defeated in 1980.
- In 2014, she became only the second Democrat from New Hampshire to be reelected to the U.S.
- Senate, and the first since Thomas J.
- McIntyre in 1972.
