Natalie Tennant

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Natalie Tennant (2011)

Natalie E. Tennant (born December 25, 1967 in Fairmont , West Virginia ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 2009 to 2017 she was Secretary of State of the State of West Virginia and candidate for the US Senate , 2014.

Family and education

Tennant grew up on a farm in Fairview , Marion County . She is the daughter of Rose Mary (nee Brunetti) and John D. Tennant, Jr. On her mother's side, she is of Italian descent . Tennant graduated from North Marion High School in Farmington in 1986 .

Tennant attended West Virginia University , where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1991 . In 2002 the master's degree in corporate and organizational communication followed. As a student at WVU, in 1990 she became the first woman to represent the university as the mascot of the sports team ( West Virginia Mountaineers ). Only in 2009 was another woman selected for this office.
However, Tennant's appointment as the university's mascot met with little approval from the student body. At the inauguration ceremony, she was spat at, drinking cups thrown at her and shouted to her to go back to the kitchen . After graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1991, Tennant began her career in television and as a journalist. After leaving West Virginia University, Tennant remained active in the WVU community and received the 1997 WVU Alumni Association's Margaret Buchanan Cole Young Alumni Award .

Prior to being elected Secretary of State, she co-owned Wells Media Group , a Charleston video production and media training company that she ran with her husband, Erik Wells , a former Democratic state senator from West Virginia. Tennant and Wells have a daughter named Delaney and they live in Charleston.

politics

Secretary of State

In 2004 Tennant ran for the post of Secretary of State of West Virginia, but lost to Ken Hechler in the Democratic primary .

In 2008, Tennant was elected Secretary of State of West Virginia with 65% of the vote. In 2012 she was re-elected with 62% of the vote. In 2016, she ran for a third term and was narrowly beaten by Republican challenger Mac Warner . Tennant had supported the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the increasingly Republican-dominated state - as an exception among office holders .

Gubernatorial candidacy

After serving as Secretary of State since 2009, she ran for governor of West Virginia in the 2011 election , but failed in her party's primary to interim governor Earl Ray Tomblin . She was third behind Tomblin and Rick Thompson .

Senate candidacy

In 2014, Tennant ran for the vacated West Virginia Senate seat of Class 2 as part of the United States Senate election . The incumbent Democratic US Senator Jay Rockefeller had chosen not to run for re-election. Tennant had little opposition in the party primary. It wasn't until ten well-known Democrats turned down a candidacy that she decided to enter the race. Tennant announced her candidacy with the following words: "I will fight any Republican or any Democrat - including President Barack Obama - who tries to kill our energy jobs, whether they are coal, natural gas, wind or water." Tennant secured himself in the course The election also received notable support, including that of Senators Rockefeller and Manchin and Governor Tomblin. Well-known democratic politicians also called for their election nationwide: Senators Heidi Heitkamp and Elizabeth Warren , like First Lady Michelle Obama, were among their supporters. Warren also raised funds for Tennant.

In the main election, Tennant faced the Republican MP for the second Congressional district of West Virginia, Shelley Moore Capito . According to Politico and the New York Times , Tennant tried to distance himself from President Obama during the election. Tennant lost significantly, however, only got 34.5% of the vote and was defeated in every county of West Virginia . This was the worst result of a Democrat in any - to date - 38 elections for a Senate seat in the state.

According to politics

Tennant took after their electoral defeat in 2017 the offer of the Law School of New York University to, in the Brennan Center for Justice to work as an expert for the protection of voter rights.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries: Rose Mary Brunetti Tennant . The Times West Virginian. June 4, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
  2. ^ Natalie Tennant for the US Senate (WV) . IADLC. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c University Relations | News: Second woman to don the buckskins as WVU Mountaineer mascot .
  4. ^ WVU Mountaineers . 1st December 2014.
  5. ↑ a b c The Year of the Mountaineer . Archived from the original on February 15, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 30, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.morgantownmag.com
  6. ↑ 25th Anniversary of the first female WVU Mountaineer: Secretary of State Natalie E. Tennant .
  7. ↑ http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2327
  8. ↑ Wendy Holdren: Secretary of state promotes women's role in W.Va. . In: Register-Herald , March 17, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2014. 
  9. ↑ Statewide Results . In: General Election - November 4, 2008 . West Virginia Secretary of State. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
  10. ↑ Brad McElhinny: Mac Warner unseats Natalie Tennant for Secretary of State. In: West Virginia Metro News , Nov. 8, 2016.
  11. ↑ Hoppy Kercheval: Tennant to run for US Senate . In: Metro News , September 13, 2013. Retrieved September 14, 2013. 
  12. ↑ Hoppy Kercheval: Natalie Tennant said to be considering Senate run . In: Charleston Daily Mail , August 22, 2013. Archived from the original on September 14, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 14, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dailymail.com 
  13. ^ A b Trip Gabriel: West Virginia Democrats Face an Uneasy Time . In: New York Times , December 28, 2013. Retrieved May 26, 2014. 
  14. ↑ a b James Hohmann: West Virginia Senate race 2014: Natalie Tennant seeks distance from Obama, coal policy . In: Politico , September 17, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2013. 
  15. ↑ a b Paul J. Nyden: Tennant Announces run for Senate . In: The Charleston Gazette , September 17, 2013. Retrieved September 19, 2013. 
  16. ↑ a b Jonathan Mattise: Sen. Elizabeth Warren to campaign for Tennant in WV . In: The Charleston Gazette . June 23, 2014. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
  17. ↑ Dave Boucher: Michelle Obama backs Natalie Tennant in US Senate race . In: Charleston Daily Mail . November 19, 2013. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
  18. ^ Eric Ostermeier: Rock Bottom: Democrats Hit Multiple Low Water Marks in US Senate Elections . In: Smart Politics . November 10, 2014.
  19. ^ Jeff Jenkins: Tennant takes job with voting advocacy center. In: West Virginia Metro News , April 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Tennant, Natalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tennant, Natalie E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Fairmont , West Virginia