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| Name | Jeanne Shaheen |
| Address | 73 Perkins Rd
Madbury, New Hampshire , United States |
| Email | None |
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January 28, 1947
(78 years)
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Modifed | IndyGeorgia
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| Info | Jeanne Bowers Shaheen was the first woman to be elected governor of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. She currently serves as Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics.
Shaheen was born Jeanne Bowers in Saint Charles, Missouri and received a bachelor's degree in English from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Mississippi. She taught high school in Mississippi and moved to New Hampshire in 1973, where she taught school and owned a small business. A Democrat, she worked on several campaigns before running for office in 1990, when she was elected to the state Senate. In 1997 she became governor.
As governor, she focused on education, health care, and the expansion of high-tech business in New Hampshire. From 2000-2001 Governor Shaheen chaired the Education Commission of the States, making early childhood education the priority of her chair's initiative. She was reelected in 1998 and 2000.
Shaheen was considered instrumental in securing Al Gore's victory over Bill Bradley in New Hampshire during the 2000 Democratic presidential primary. Gore's defeat of Bradley all but ended the Bradley campaign, and Gore rewarded Shaheen by naming her to his short list of potential vice presidential nominees. Shaheen quickly acknowledged that, while appreciative of the speculation, she would not be a candidate for vice president, and she urged the Gore campaign to withdraw her name from consideration.
Shaheen ran for the U.S. Senate in 2002 when she was defeated by Republican John E. Sununu, by 47%-50%. In June 2004, former Republican consultant Allen Raymond pleaded guilty to jamming Democratic Party lines set up to get New Hampshire Democrats to the polls in 2002, an action that some (most notably former Senator Bob Smith, who Sununu had defeated in the Republican primary) believe may have contributed to Shaheen's narrow loss. A judge sentenced him to five months in jail in February 2005. Chuck McGee, the former state GOP chair, was sentenced to seven months for his role.
Raymond alleged that James Tobin, Northeast field director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, masterminded the plot. In December 2005, Tobin was convicted of two federal felonies arising from the phone-jamming and sentenced to ten months in prison. Tobin's lawyers are appealing the verdict.
After a short time teaching at Harvard University (and a fellowship in the Institute of Politics with former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift), she was named national chair of John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign in September 2003. Kerry's campaign, stagnant at that point, won the nomination handily and Shaheen received much of the credit.
In April 2005, Shaheen was named director of Harvard's Institute of Politics, succeeding former U.S. Representative (and current MPAA head) Dan Glickman.
Shaheen and her husband Bill, a prominent New Hampshire lawyer and co-founder of the Shaheen & Gordon Law Firm, have three children.
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