Blanche Lincoln

Blanche Lincoln

Blanche Lambert Lincoln (born September 30, 1960 in Helena , Arkansas ; born Blanche Lambert ) is an American politician ( Democratic Party ). From 1999 to 2011 she represented the state of Arkansas in the US Senate .

Life

Blanche Lambert attended public schools in Arkansas and studied at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg ( Virginia ); she was awarded the academic degree Bachelor of Arts there in 1982 . She then attended the University of Arkansas Law School . After her marriage to Dr. Steve Lincoln took her last name. The couple have two sons (twins). Blanche Lincoln is a member of the Episcopal Church . Her sister is the film director Mary Lambert .

Political career

From 1982 to 1984 she worked as an assistant to Congressman Bill Alexander from Arkansas, whom she successfully challenged in the Democratic primary for the 1992 congressional election in his constituency. In the subsequent congressional elections she was elected to the US House of Representatives and confirmed two years later. Because of her pregnancy, she decided not to run again in the next election in 1996, but was elected to the US Senate in 1998. When she was first elected, at 38, she was the youngest woman to have been elected to the Senate. On September 9, 2009, she became the first woman in Senate history to chair the Agriculture Committee .

Blanche Lincoln is considered a more conservative Democrat. She had to face the challenge of the Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, Bill Halter , in the 2010 Democratic primary and was only able to win the primary by a narrow margin.

In the Senate elections on November 2, 2010, she was clearly defeated by her Republican challenger, former Congressman John Boozman . On January 3, 2011, he replaced her in the Senate.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report in the online edition of the New York Times, June 8, 2010 .
2. ↑ Election coverage in the online New York Times , accessed December 9, 2010.

Web links

Commons : Blanche Lincoln  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Blanche Lincoln in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)