Jeanne Shaheen
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United States Senator from New Hampshire |
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Assumed office January 3, 2009 Serving with Maggie Hassan |
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| Preceded by | John Sununu |
| Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee | |
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Assumed office January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Jim Risch |
| 78th Governor of New Hampshire | |
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In office January 9, 1997 – January 9, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Steve Merrill |
| Succeeded by | Craig Benson |
| Member of the New Hampshire Senate from the 21st district |
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In office December 2, 1992 – December 4, 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Katie Wheeler |
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Cynthia Jeanne Bowers January 28, 1947 St. Charles, Missouri, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Bill Shaheen |
| Children | 3 |
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Shippensburg University (BA) University of Mississippi (MSS) |
| Website | Senate website |
Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen (née Bowers; January 28, 1947) is an American politician.
Shaheen is the Senior United States Senator from New Hampshire, a position she has held since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first female U.S. Senator in New Hampshire's history, was the first woman to be elected Governor of New Hampshire, and she is the first woman to be elected as a U.S. Governor and a U.S. Senator.
After serving two terms in the New Hampshire Senate, Shaheen was elected Governor in 1996, and she was re-elected in 1998 and 2000. In 2002, she opted to run for the United States Senate, losing to Republican 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.
Shaheen became the first Democratic Senator from New Hampshire since John A. Durkin, who was defeated in 1980. In 2014, She became the only second Democrat from New Hampshire to be re-elected to the U.S. Senate, and the first since Thomas J. McIntyre in 1972.
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