Elise Stefanik Makes History As Youngest Woman Under The Republican Ticket To Be Elected To Congress In House OF Representatives And Voted No 13 House Republicans Who Voted Against The Tax Bill Vote Them All Out 2018
Elise Marie Stefanik (born July 2, 1984) is an American politician from the state of New York. She is a Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 21st congressional district. She is also the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, elected in 2014 at age 30. She is currently the youngest member of the House.
Stefanik was born in Albany, New York in 1984. Her parents, Melanie and Ken Stefanik, own a plywood business in the Albany area. She attended the Albany Academy for Girls and Harvard University (class of 2006).
While at Harvard she was awarded the Women's Leadership Award. After graduating from Harvard, she joined the administration of President George W. Bush, working on the Domestic Policy Council.
She also worked in the office of the White House Chief of Staff for Bush's second deputy chief of staff, Joshua Bolten.[4][9] She has worked as communications director for the Foreign Policy Initiative and as the policy director for former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty during his 2012 presidential campaign.
Stefanik managed Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan’s debate preparation as he ran for Vice President of the United States in the 2012 general election. Following the Romney-Ryan loss in the 2012 presidential election, she returned to upstate New York to join her parents' wholesale plywood business, located in Guilderland Center.
In 2013, Stefanik declared her candidacy in the 2014 election for the United States House of Representatives in New York's 21st congressional district. The district and its predecessors had been in Republican hands for 136 years before Democrat Bill Owens won a 2009 special election and subsequently won re-election in 2010 and 2012. In 2014, Owens opted not to seek reelection following a re-districting.
Stefanik defeated Matt Doheny in the Republican primary election 61 to 39 percent, She faced Aaron Woolf, the Democratic Party nominee, and Matt Funiciello, the Green Party nominee, in the general election on November 4. Stefanik defeated Woolf and Funiciello 55.2% to 33.5% and 10.6% respectively, becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
2016
Stefanik ran for re-election in 2016. She ran unopposed in the Republican primary. Stefanik supported Donald Trump for president after he won the 2016 Republican presidential primaries.She faced Democrat Mike Derrick and Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello in the general election.
She won re-election with 66%, while Derrick (D) received 29% and Funiciello (G) received 5% of the vote. In January 2015, Stefanik was appointed to the House Armed Services Committee. She was elected by the freshman Representatives in the 114th Congress to serve as the Freshman Representative to the Policy Committee.
In February 2015, she was appointed vice chairwoman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Readiness.
She is a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership.
In January 2015, Stefanik was appointed to the House Armed Services Committee. She was elected by the freshman Representatives in the 114th Congress to serve as the Freshman Representative to the Policy Committee.
In February 2015, she was appointed vice chairwoman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Readiness.
She is a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership.
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