Elise Stefanik

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Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik official congressional photo.jpg
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 21st district
Assumed office
January 3, 2015
Preceded by Bill Owens
Personal details
Born (1984-07-02) July 2, 1984 (age 40)
Albany, New York, U.S.
Political party Republican
Alma mater Harvard University (A.B.) (2006)
Religion Roman Catholicism[1]
Website House website

Elise M. Stefanik (born July 2, 1984) is an American politician from the state of New York. She is a member of the Republican Party and a member of the United States House of Representatives in New York's 21st congressional district.[2] She is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, elected in 2014 at age 30.[3][4][5]

Early life and career

Stefanik was born in Albany, New York in 1984. Her parents, Melanie and Ken Stefanik, own a plywood business in the Albany area.[6] She attended the Albany Academy for Girls. Stefanik is an honors graduate of Harvard University, graduating in 2006.[7][8][9] While at Harvard she was awarded the Women's Leadership Award.[10][11] After graduating from Harvard at 21 years old, she joined the administration of President George W. Bush,[12] working on the Domestic Policy Council.[13]

She also worked in the office of the White House Chief of Staff for Bush's second deputy chief of staff, Joshua Bolten.[8][13] She has worked as communications director for the Foreign Policy Initiative and as the policy director for former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty during his 2012 presidential campaign.[8]

Stefanik managed Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan’s debate preparation as he ran for Vice President of the United States in the 2012 general election.[8][12][14] Following the Romney-Ryan loss in the 2012 presidential election, she returned to upstate New York to join her parents' wholesale plywood business, located in Guilderland Center, New York.[8][9]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2014

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In 2013, Stefanik declared her candidacy in the 2014 election for the United States House of Representatives in New York's 21st congressional district. The district and its predecessors had been in Republican hands for 136 years before Democrat Bill Owens won a 2009 special election. Owens had opted not to seek reelection.

Stefanik defeated Matthew Doheny in the Republican primary election 61 to 39 percent,[15] She faced Aaron Woolf, the Democratic Party nominee, in the general election on November 4.[12] Stefanik defeated Woolf 55.2% to 33.5%, becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.[14][16][lower-alpha 1]

2016

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Stefanik is running for re-election in 2016. She is running unopposed in the Republican primary. She will face Democrat Mike Derrick in the general election.[17]

Tenure

In January 2015, Stefanik was appointed to the House Armed Services Committee.[18] She was elected by the freshman Representatives in the 114th Congress to serve as the Freshman Representative to the Policy Committee.[19]

In February 2015, she was appointed vice chairwoman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Readiness.[20]

Committee assignments

Policy positions

Stefanik wants to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[21] Stefanik voted in favor of the Keystone Pipeline.[22] Stefanik opposed the 2013 sequestration cuts to the federal U.S. military budget, specifically its effect on Fort Drum in Watertown, New York.[22]

Personal life

Stefanik resides in Willsboro, New York.[23] She owns a minority interest in a townhouse near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., valued at $1.3 million.[24]

Electoral history

U.S. House of Representatives election, 2014: New York's 21st district
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Elise Stefanik 96,226 53.0 +7.7
Democratic Aaron G. Woolf 53,140 29.3 -17.8
Green Matthew J. Funiciello 19,238 10.6 +9.0
Majority 43,086 23.7 +21.9
Turnout 181,558 100.0 -32.5

Notes

  1. ↑ Stefanik won the election at age 30. Previously the youngest woman to win an election to Congress was Elizabeth Holtzman, who was 31 when first elected in 1973.[16]

References

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  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Center, Shira T. How Elise Stefanik Became the Youngest Woman Ever Elected to Congress, Roll Call, November 12, 2014.
  15. ↑ New York – Summary Vote Results, Associated Press, June 25, 2014
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External links

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 21st congressional district
2015–present		 Incumbent
Honorary titles
Preceded by Baby of the House
2015–present		 Incumbent
United States order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by United States Representatives by seniority
422nd		 Succeeded by
Mark Takai
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