Linda McMahon

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Linda McMahon, 2017

Linda Marie McMahon , née Linda Marie Edwards , (born October 4, 1948 in New Bern , North Carolina ) is an American manager and politician .

Together with her husband Vince McMahon , with whom she has two children, Stephanie McMahon and Shane McMahon , she ran the company World Wrestling Entertainment from 1980 to 2009 and built it up into an internationally successful, listed company. In September 2009, she resigned from her post as chief executive officer to pursue her political career. The US $ 50 million election campaign for a seat in the United States Senate for the state of Connecticut in the 2010 elections, McMahon, a member of the Republican Party , lost 12% against the Democrat Richard Blumenthal . After the election, Linda McMahon announced that she would run again in the 2012 Senate election. Again she lost 12% behind the Democratic candidate Chris Murphy .

On December 7, 2016, she was nominated as head of the Small Business Administration by the then-designated US President Donald Trump . The Senate confirmed her in this office on February 14, 2017 with 81:19 votes. On April 12, 2019, she resigned and moved to an organization that looks after the funding of Trump's election campaign for the 2020 presidential election .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ WrestleMania in Connecticut - Article about Linda Mcmahon in The Weekly Standard, July 19, 2010
  2. ^ Reuters announcement
  3. ↑ Report on the election and McMahon The Washington Post
  4. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/elections/2010/results/connecticut.html
  5. ↑ Renewed starting in the 2012 election, Press Release
  6. ↑ [1]
  7. ^ Jacob Pramuk: Trump picks wrestling magnate Linda McMahon to lead Small Business Administration . In: MSNBC , December 7, 2016. 
  8. ↑ RUSSELL BLAIR: Linda McMahon Confirmed For Trump Cabinet Job . In: courant.com . ( courant.com [accessed February 14, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Linda McMahon steps down from SBA to head super PAC. Accessed August 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Trump's tenure: who was fired, who left . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed April 9, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME McMahon, Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McMahon, Linda Marie (full name); Edwards, Linda Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American manager and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH New Bern , North Carolina