Jeanne Shaheen is the senior United States Senator from New Hampshire, having served in the Senate since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman in American history to be elected both governor and United States senator. She was born in St. Charles, Missouri, in 1947 and is a graduate of Shippensburg University and the University of Mississippi, where she earned a master's degree in political science. Before her election to the Senate, she served three terms as Governor of New Hampshire from 1997 to 2003, and earlier ran a political consulting firm and worked on several presidential campaigns.
Shaheen serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee, where she has been a consistent voice on transatlantic security, NATO, and support for Ukraine. She also serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. She is one of the most senior Democrats in the Senate and has been a prominent figure in New Hampshire politics for more than three decades.