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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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2016-12-13 |
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| Name | Maggie Hassan |
| Previous Name | 02/27/1958 - 08/27/1983 Margaret Wood
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Exeter, New Hampshire , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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 Facebook | 134535726580904 |
 X (Twitter) | maggie_hassan |
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February 27, 1958
(67 years)
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| Contributor | Bob |
| Last Modifed | Charlotte KAP
Feb 27, 2022 05:28pm |
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Married - Church of Christ -
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| Info | Maggie Hassan is a Senator for the State of New Hampshire, one of only two women in United States history to have served as Governor and Senator.
Born Margaret Coldwell Wood in Boston to parents active in politics (her father served briefly as Lyndon Johnson's HUD Secretary), she attended Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, and graduated in 1976. Following Lincoln-Sudbury, Wood received a B.A. degree in history from Brown University in 1980, and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1985. While at Brown, she met Thomas Hassan, whom she would marry in 1983.
Maggie Hassan worked in law from 1985 to 1999, when Governor Jeanne Shaheen (whom she would later serve with as Senator) appointed her as a citizen advisor to the Advisory Committee to the Adequacy in Education and Finance Commission.
New Hampshire Democratic leaders urged Hassan to run for State Senate in 2002, which she did. After failing in 2002 to Russell Prescott, Hassan prevailed in a 2004 rematch, and served until 2010, when she lost a second rematch to former Senator Prescott. During her time in the Senate, she served in many roles, including Majority Leader, which she used to push passage of legislation allowing same-sex marriage in New Hampshire.
Hassan ran and won the 2012 gubernatorial race, prevailing over several legislative colleagues in the primary, and Republican Ovide Lamontagne in the general election. She would succeed in a 2014 re-election bid.
In 2016, she ran against incumbent Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte and prevailed, flipping the seat by a thin margin. Hassan resigned from the governorship on January 3, 2017.
Senator Hassan is running for re-election in the 2022 midterm elections.
Senator Hassan and her husband, Thomas, have two adult children: Ben, who has cerebral palsy, and Meg. She is a member of the United Church of Christ.
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| US Secretary of Labor - Mar 10, 2025 |
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer |
| US Secretary of Health & Human Services - Feb 13, 2025 |
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Reject |
| US Secretary of State - Jan 20, 2025 |
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Marco A. Rubio |
| NH Governor - D Primary - Sep 10, 2024 |
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Joyce Craig |
| Manchester, NH Mayor - Primary - Sep 19, 2023 |
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Kevin J. Cavanaugh |
| GA US Senate - Special Election - Nov 03, 2020 |
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Raphael Warnock |
| US President - D Primaries - Aug 11, 2020 |
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Joe Biden |
| US Secretary of Energy - Dec 02, 2019 |
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Dan Brouillette |
| NH District 01 - D Primary - Sep 11, 2018 |
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Christopher Pappas |
| NH Governor - D Primary - Sep 11, 2018 |
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Molly Kelly |
| Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board - Jan 23, 2018 |
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Jerome H. "Jay" Powell |
| US Ambassador to the Holy See - Oct 16, 2017 |
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Reject |
| US Secretary of Commerce - Feb 27, 2017 |
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Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. |
| DNC Party Chair - Feb 25, 2017 |
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Raymond Buckley |
| NH US President - D Primary - Feb 09, 2016 |
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Hillary Clinton |
| NH US President - D Primary - Jan 08, 2008 |
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Hillary Clinton |
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