Olympia Snowe

Olympia Jean Bouchles Snowe (born February 21, 1947 in Augusta, Maine) is a Republican politician and, as of 2005, the senior United States senator from Maine.

A woman of firsts

Snowe is the fourth woman to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the first to chair its seapower subcommittee, which oversees the Navy and Marine Corps. In 2001, Snowe became the first Republican woman to secure a full-term seat on the Senate Finance Committee.

Related Topics:
Senate Armed Services Committee - Navy - Marine Corps - 2001 - Senate Finance Committee

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Snowe was the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the United States House of Representatives; she is also the only woman to have served in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of the U.S. Congress. Finally, she is the first Greek-American congresswoman. With her 1989 marriage to Maine Governor Jock McKernan, she became the first person to simultaneously be a member of Congress and First Lady of a state. She has never lost an election, and she recently announced that she will seek a third Senate term in 2006; she is a heavy favorite to win, and was reported in July 2005 - 15 months ahead of the election - to have raised over $1.2 million. http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/050720snowemoney.shtml A grassroots campaign has emerged to convince Snowe to seek the Republican nomination for the Presidency in the 2008 Presidential election. http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=109510

Related Topics:
United States House of Representatives - 2006 - Presidency - 2008 Presidential election

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U.S. President George W. Bush nicknamed Snowe "The Big O". http://www.nndb.com/group/750/000091477/

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