Kirsten Gillibrand

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Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik Gillibrand [ ˈkɝːstn̩ ˈdʒɪləbɹænd ] (born December 9, 1966 in Albany , New York ) is an American politician . She is a member of the Democratic Party and has been a member of the United States Senate since January 27, 2009, representing New York State . Previously, she was a member of the House of Representatives from January 4, 2007 as a representative of the 20th New York Congressional electoral district .

Family, education and work

Kirsten Gillibrand is the daughter of two lawyers; her father and maternal grandmother were politically active. Her grandmother Polly Noonan was the gray eminence of Albany politics for decades . After graduating with a bachelor's degree in Sinology from Dartmouth College and studying law at the University of California, Los Angeles , which she completed in 1991 as a Juris Doctor , she initially worked as a law clerk at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals . During the Bill Clinton presidency , she was an advisor to Secretary of Construction Andrew Cuomo . She then worked as a lawyer in the law firms of Davis Polk & Wardwell and Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Philip Morris USA was one of her clients .

Kirsten Gillibrand with her family (2009)

Gillibrand lives in Brunswick with her husband Jonathan and their two sons ; they had previously sold their property in Greenport to Richard Stengel .

Political career

In the 2006 House election , she stood in the traditionally conservative 20th Congressional electoral district of New York State, which has been held by Republicans since 1993, against the three-time re-elected mandate holder John E. Sweeney . She profited from corruption allegations against Sweeney and won the seat in the House of Representatives with 53% of the vote. In November 2008, she stood for re-election for the 111th Congress and was able to beat her Republican challenger Alexander Treadwell . In the House of Representatives, Gillibrand served on the Agriculture and Armed Forces committees and several subcommittees.

On January 23, 2009, New York Governor David Paterson named her interim successor to Hillary Clinton , who had left the Senate after her appointment as Secretary of State . Gillibrand took her oath as senator on January 27, 2009 and was the youngest member of the Senate at the time, aged 42. The by-election on November 2, 2010 for the remainder of Clinton's mandate, which extends until 2013, she won against Joseph J. DioGuardi with 62%. In the first regular Senate election in 2012 , she was confirmed against Wendy Long with a 72% vote, the best result in New York history. In the 2018 election she was confirmed with 67 to 33 percent of the vote against Republican Chele Farley.

In the Senate, Gillibrand is a member of the Foreign Affairs , Environment , Agriculture and Aging committees and several subcommittees.

She was considered one of the leading figures of the MeToo movement in autumn 2017 and was thus given a nationwide profile.

On January 16, 2019, Gillibrand announced on Stephen Colbert's Late Show that she would run for the 2020 presidential election and had formed an exploratory committee. On August 28, 2019, she withdrew her candidacy due to poor poll results.

Positions

Gillibrand is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition , an intra-party coalition of moderately conservative politicians, and co-founder of the Congressional High Tech Caucus .

Publications

  • 2014: Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World , Ballantine Books, ISBN 978-0804179072

Web links

Commons : Kirsten Gillibrand  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sam Roberts: Gillibrand's Grandmother Also Wielded Political Power, but From the Wings. In: The New York Times , January 31, 2009; Christopher Bates: Democratic Presidential Candidate of the Week: Kirsten Gillibrand. In: Electoral Vote , January 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ As New Lawyer, Senator Was Active in Tobacco's Defense. In: The New York Times , March 27, 2009.
  3. ^ Jill Bryce: Gillibrand decides there's no place like home. In: Times Union , February 11, 2011.
  4. ^ Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 2006 .
  5. ↑ Welcomed in Washington, Scrutinized Back Home. In: The New York Times , January 27, 2009.
  6. ↑ 2012 Election Results. In: CNN.com , November 2012.
  7. ^ New York US Senate Election Results. In: The New York Times , November 7, 2018.
  8. ↑ Welcomed in Washington, Scrutinized Back Home. In: The New York Times , January 27, 2009.
  9. ^ Jason Zengerle: Kirsten Gillibrand, the Senator From the State of #MeToo. In: GQ , April 17, 2018.
  10. ↑ The Late Show: Tweet: TONIGHT: @SenGillibrand stops by @colbertlateshow to announce that she is forming an exploratory committee to run for President of the United States! #LSSC. In: Twitter, The Late Show. The Late Show, January 16, 2019, accessed January 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Kirsten Gillibrand cancels campaign for the White House. In: www.spiegel.de. August 29, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gillibrand, Kirsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gillibrand, Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Albany , New York