Jeanne Shaheen was the first woman to be elected governor of the U.S. State of New Hampshire. Elected in 1996, not only was she the first woman governor, but was also the first Democrat elected governor in the state in sixteen years. She was re-elected in 1998 and 2000, becoming only the fourth governor in New Hampshire history elected to three consecutive terms. In 2002 she narrowly lost her bid for the United States Senate.
She currently serves as Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics.
Jeanne Shaheen received a Bachelor's degree in English from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and a Master's degree in political science from the University of Mississippi.
One of the disturbing things to me is that if we look at women being elected to statewide office or higher and go back to the early 70s there was a ... and you were going to graph that out, there would be a slow trajectory that would go up like this until you get to the end of the 90s and since 2000...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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