Jeanne Shaheen

Jeanne Shaheen

Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen ( shə-HEEN; née Bowers, born January 28, 1947) is an American politician and retired educator serving as the senior United States senator from New Hampshire since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first female U.S. senator in New Hampshire's history, the first elected female governor of New Hampshire and the first woman elected as both a governor and a U.S. senator, with the junior senator from New Hampshire and former governor of the state Maggie Hassan being the second woman to have occupied both of those roles.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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeanne Shaheen has received more than 1,131,934 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jeanne Shaheen is the 14,628th most popular politician (down from 13,506th in 2019), the 11,222nd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,481st in 2019) and the 797th most popular American Politician.