What is Jeanne Shaheen?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Jeanne Shaheen |image = Shaheen Senate Portrait.jpg |jr/sr = United States Senator |state = [[New Hampshire]] |alongside = [[Maggie Hassan]] |term_start = January 3, 2009 |term_end = |predecessor = [[John E. Sununu|John Sununu]] |successor = |office1 = [[List of Governors of New Hampshire|78th]] [[Governor of New Hampshire]] |term_start1 = January 9, 1997 |term_end1 = January 9, 2003 |predecessor1 = [[Steve Merrill]] |successor1 = [[Craig Benson]] |state_senate2 = New Hampshire |district2 = 21st |term_start2 = December 2, 1992 |term_end2 = December 4, 1996 |predecessor2 = Position established |successor2 = [[Katie Wheeler]] |birth_name = Cynthia Jeanne Bowers |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|1|28}} |birth_place = [[St. Charles, Missouri|St. Charles]], [[Missouri]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = Bill Shaheen |children = 3 |education = [[Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania|Shippensburg University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}<br>[[University of Mississippi|University of Mississippi, Oxford]] {{small|([[Master of Social Science|MSS]])}} |website = {{url|shaheen.senate.gov|Senate website}} }} '''Cynthia Jeanne Bowers''' (also '''Jeanne Shaheen'''; born January 28, 1947) is an [[Americans|American]] [[politician]]. She is a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|U.S. Democratic Party]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jeanne Shaheen|publisher=U.S. Senate|url=http://www.shaheen.senate.gov/about/biography|accessdate=September 21, 2014}}</ref> In 1996, Shaheen became the first woman to be elected Governor of New Hampshire. In 2008, Shaheen was elected to the [[United States Senate]]. Since 2011, she has been the senior senator from [[New Hampshire]]. Shaheen was born in [[Saint Charles, Missouri]]. ==References== <references/> {{DEFAULTSORT:Shaheen, Jeann