Peter Shumlin
| Peter Shumlin | |
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| 81st Governor of Vermont | |
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In office January 6, 2011 – January 5, 2017 |
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| Lieutenant | Phil Scott |
| Preceded by | Jim Douglas |
| Succeeded by | Phil Scott |
| President pro tempore of the Vermont Senate | |
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In office January 2007 – January 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Welch |
| Succeeded by | John Campbell |
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In office January 1997 – January 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Stephen Webster |
| Succeeded by | Peter Welch |
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Peter Elliott Shumlin March 24, 1956 Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Preston Parsons (1981–198?) Deborah Holway (1989–2013) Katie Hunt (2015–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Wesleyan University (BA) |
Peter Elliott Shumlin (born March 24, 1956) is an American Democratic Party politician who was 81st governor of the state of Vermont from 2011 to 2017. First elected governor in 2010, he was re-elected to a second term in 2012. In 2014 he received a narrow plurality in his race for re-election, but did not attain the 50% threshold mandated by the Vermont Constitution. In such cases the Vermont General Assembly elects the winner. The legislature almost always selects the candidate who received a plurality; this held true, and the General Assembly re-elected Shumlin to a third term by a vote of 110–69 in January 2015. In June 2015, Shumlin announced that he would not seek re-election in 2016. He has signed laws on physician-assisted suicide as well as the United States' first genetically modified food labeling requirement during his tenure as governor. He was chair of the Democratic Governors Association during his first two terms.
He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1990 to 1993, and represented the Windham District in the Vermont Senate from 1993 to 2003 and 2007 to 2011. He was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 2002.
Shumlin was born in Brattleboro, Vermont. He went to high school at Buxton School in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1979. Shumlin served on Selectboard for the town of Putney in the 1980s and helped found Landmark College, which was created to help people with learning disabilities gain a college education. Shumlin's father, George J. Shumlin, a third-generation American, was Jewish and descended from Russian immigrants; his mother, Kitty A. (Prins) Shumlin, was from The Hague in the Netherlands, and was Protestant.
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