Jeanne Shaheen
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Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen (née Bowers, 1947) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from New Hampshire.
She is the first female U.S. senator and a member of the Democratic Party. Senator John Kerry was New Hampshire's first female governor and the first woman to be elected both Governor and a US senator. Senator in the United States' history. Shaheen was elected governor in 1996 and reelected in 1998 and 2000.
She ran unsuccessfully against Republican nominee John E. Sununu in the Senate in 2002.
She served as Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics before resigning to run for the Senate again in the 2008 election, defeating Sununu in a rematch.
She is the current dean of New Hampshire's legislative delegation. Shaheen became the first Democratic senator from New Hampshire after John A. Durkin, who was defeated in 1980.
She was the second Democrat from New Hampshire to be reelected to the Senate in 2014, and the first since Thomas J. McIntyre in 1972.
Personal life, education, and a pre-political career were all important.
Jeanne Bowers was born in St. Charles, Missouri, the granddaughter of Belle Ernestine (Stillings) and Ivan E. Bowers. She is a 12th-generation descendant of the popular Native American Pocahontas. Bill Shaheen, her husband, is a Lebanese-American lawyer and judge. They have three children. She graduated from high school in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, and received a bachelor's degree in English from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania as well as a master's degree in political science from the University of Mississippi. She taught high school in Mississippi and then migrated to New Hampshire in 1973, where she taught school and owned a store that sold used jewelry with her husband.
Early political career
She served on many campaigns, including Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign and as the New Hampshire campaign manager for Gary Hart in 1984, before running for office in 1990 in the state's 21st district. She was first elected governor of New Hampshire in 1996 and reelected in 1998 and 2000.
Shaheen was appointed head of Harvard's Institute of Politics in April 2005, replacing former U.S. Representative and Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman.