Jeanne Shaheen
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Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen is an American politician and former educator serving since 2009 as the senior United States senator from New Hampshire. A member of the Democratic Party, she served from 1997 to 2003 as the 78th governor of New Hampshire. Shaheen is the first woman elected both governor and a U.S. senator, and was the first elected female governor of New Hampshire.
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Sep 15, 2026
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Her chief of staff Alison MacDonald was profiled as Shaheen prepares to retire from Congress at the end of the term.
Moderates in both parties treat Shaheen's retirement as the loss of a genuine foreign-relations and appropriations dealmaker, a reminder that the Senate's pragmatic wing is aging out faster than it is being replaced.