Ann McLane Kuster

Ann McLane Kuster (2013)

Ann "Annie" McLane Kuster (born September 5, 1956 in Concord , New Hampshire ) is an American politician . She has represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives since 2013 .

Career

Ann McLane, her maiden name, attended Dartmouth College in Hanover until 1980 . This was followed by a law degree at Georgetown University in Washington, DC until 1984 . In the following years she worked as a lawyer and corporate consultant. Although her parents were members of the Republican Party and held some local offices in their homeland, she later joined the Democratic Party . Between 1978 and 1981 she worked for the then Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey from California, who later also moved to the Democrats. In 2010 she ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives.

In the 2012 congressional election , Ann Kuster was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second constituency of New Hampshire, where she succeeded Charles Bass on January 3, 2013 , to whom she had been defeated two years earlier. On November 6, 2012, she received 50 percent of the vote; Bass reached 45 percent. After two re-elections so far in 2014 and 2016, she can continue to exercise her office today. Her new legislative period runs until January 3, 2019 with the option of a further candidacy in 2018. In Congress, she is or was a member of the Agriculture Committee from the start . She later became a member of the House Committee on Small Business and the Veterans Committee.

Ann Kuster is married and has two sons.

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• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Web links

• Web presence at the congress
• Ann McLane Kuster in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)