Jeanne Shaheen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jeanne Shaheen

United States Senator from New Hampshire

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1947

Place of Birth: St. Charles, Missouri, United States

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen (née Bowers; January 28, 1947) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from New Hampshire.
A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first female U.S.
Senator in New Hampshire's history, was the first female Governor of New Hampshire, and the first woman elected as both Governor and a U.S.
Senator in American history.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.
Senate again in the 2008 election, defeating Sununu in a rematch.
She is the current dean of New Hampshire's congressional delegation. Shaheen became the first Democratic Senator from New Hampshire since John A.
Durkin, who was defeated in 1980.
In 2014, she became only the second Democrat from New Hampshire to be reelected to the U.S.
Senate, and the first since Thomas J.
McIntyre in 1972.