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Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
	Official portrait, 2021
United States Senator; from New Hampshire
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; January 3, 2009 Serving with Maggie Hassan
Preceded by	John Sununu
Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; September 27, 2023
Preceded by	Ben Cardin
Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee
	In office; April 2, 2015 – February 6, 2018
Preceded by	Ben Cardin
Succeeded by	Ben Cardin
78th Governor of New Hampshire
	In office; January 9, 1997 – January 9, 2003
Preceded by	Steve Merrill
Succeeded by	Craig Benson
Member of the New Hampshire Senate; from the 21st district
	In office; December 5, 1990 – December 4, 1996
Preceded by	Franklin Torr
Succeeded by	Katie Wheeler
Personal details
Born	Cynthia Jeanne Bowers; January 28, 1947 (age 77); St. Charles, Missouri, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	William Shaheen (m. 1972)
Children	3
Education	Shippensburg University (BA); University of Mississippi (MSS)
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Website	Senate website
	Shaheen's voice Shaheen on her support of Julianne Smith to be U.S. Ambassador to NATO; Recorded November 18, 2021

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Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen (/ˈdʒiːn ʃəˈhiːn/ JEEN shə-HEEN; née Bowers, born January 28, 1947) is an American politician and retired educator serving as the senior United States senator from New Hampshire, a seat she has held since January 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she also served as the 78th governor of New Hampshire from 1997 to 2003. Shaheen is the first woman elected as both a governor and a U.S. senator,^[1] and the first woman elected governor of New Hampshire.

After serving two terms in the New Hampshire Senate, Shaheen was elected governor in 1996 and reelected in 1998 and 2000. In 2002, she unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate against Republican nominee John E. Sununu. She served as director of the Harvard Institute of Politics before resigning to run for the U.S. Senate again in the 2008 election, defeating Sununu in a rematch. She is the dean of New Hampshire's congressional delegation, serving in Congress since 2009.

Shaheen became the first Democratic senator from New Hampshire since John A. Durkin, who was defeated in 1980. In 2014, she became the second Democrat from New Hampshire to be reelected to the Senate and the first since Thomas J. McIntyre in 1972. She was reelected to a third term in 2020, defeating Republican nominee Bryant Messner.

Personal life, education and pre-political career

Jeanne Shaheen was born Cynthia Jeanne Bowers in St. Charles, Missouri, the daughter of Belle Ernestine (Stillings) and Ivan E. Bowers.^[2]^{[unreliable source?]}

Shaheen graduated from high school in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in political science from the University of Mississippi.^[3] She taught high school in Mississippi^[4] and moved to New Hampshire in 1973, where she taught school and, with her husband, owned a store that sold used jewelry.^[5] She is married to Bill Shaheen, an attorney and judge. They have three children.

Early political career

A Democrat, she worked on several campaigns, including Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, and as the New Hampshire campaign manager for Gary Hart in 1984,^[6] before running for office in 1990, when she was elected to the state Senate for the 21st district. She was elected governor of New Hampshire in 1996 and reelected in 1998 and 2000.^[7]

In April 2005, Shaheen was named director of Harvard's Institute of Politics,^[8] succeeding former U.S. Representative and Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman.

Governor of New Hampshire

Shaheen's decision to run for New Hampshire governor followed the retirement of Republican Governor Steve Merrill. Her opponent in 1996 was Ovide M. Lamontagne, then chairman of the State Board of Education. Shaheen presented herself as a moderate. According to a PBS profile, she focused on education funding issues, and pledged to expand kindergarten. She defeated Lamontagne by 57 to 40 percent.^[9]

Shaheen was the first woman to be elected governor of New Hampshire.^[10] (She was not, however, the first woman to serve as New Hampshire's governor; Vesta M. Roy was acting governor from December 30, 1982, until January 6, 1983.)^[11]

In 1998, she was reelected by a margin of 66 to 31 percent.^[12]^[13]

In both 1996 and 1998, Shaheen took a no-new-taxes pledge. After a court decision preventing education from being largely supported by local taxes, "her administration devised a plan that would have increased education spending and set a statewide property tax."^[14]

Running for a third term in 2000, Shaheen refused to renew her no-new-taxes pledge, becoming the first New Hampshire governor in 38 years to win an election without making that pledge.^[15] Shaheen's preferred solution to the school-funding problem was not a broad-based tax but legalized video-gambling at state racetracks—a solution repeatedly rejected by the state legislature.^[16]^[17]

In 2001 Shaheen tried to implement a 2.5% sales tax, the first broad-based tariff of its kind in New Hampshire, which has never had a sales tax. The state legislature rejected her proposal.^[18] She also proposed an increase in the state's cigarette tax and a 4.5% capital gains tax.

Presidential politics

2000

During the 2000 Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, Shaheen supported Al Gore, and her husband served as Gore's New Hampshire campaign manager. According to the New York Observer, the Shaheens were critical in helping Gore win a narrow victory in the New Hampshire primary over Bill Bradley.^[19]^[20]

Gore added Shaheen to his short list of potential vice presidential nominees, which also included Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, North Carolina Senator John Edwards, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, and Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman.^[21] Shaheen responded to speculation by stating she wasn't interested in the job.^[22]

2004

After a short time teaching at Harvard University (and a fellowship in the Institute of Politics with former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift), Shaheen was named national chairperson of John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign in September 2003.

U.S. Senate

Elections

Shaheen on the campaign trail at Dartmouth College, July 2008

2002

After three two-year terms as governor, Shaheen declined to run for a fourth, instead choosing to run for the U.S. Senate in 2002. Republican John E. Sununu defeated her by a 51 percent to 47 percent margin (19,751 votes). In an interview with the Concord Monitor, Shaheen attributed her loss in part to "discussion about the job that [she] did as governor." At that time, early Republican advertisements slammed her support for putting a sales tax on the ballot or faulted her for failing schools.^[23]

In June 2004, former Republican consultant Allen Raymond pleaded guilty to jamming Democratic Party lines set up to get New Hampshire Democrats to the polls in 2002, which some (most notably former Senator Bob Smith, whom Sununu defeated in the Republican primary) believe contributed to Shaheen's loss.^[24] A judge sentenced Raymond to five months in jail in February 2005. Charles McGee, the former state GOP executive director, was sentenced to seven months for his role.^{[citation needed]}

Raymond alleged that James Tobin, Northeast field director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, masterminded the plot. In December 2005, Tobin was convicted of two federal felonies arising from the phone-jamming and sentenced to ten months in prison, but that conviction was reversed on appeal. In October 2008, prosecutors filed two new felony indictments charging that Tobin lied to an FBI agent when he was interviewed in 2003 about his role in the phone-jamming case.^[25] These charges were summarily dismissed in 2009 after the federal judge in Maine's District Court found them motivated by "vindictive prosecution".^[26]

2008

In early July 2007 through UNH, CNN and WMUR put out a poll^[27] showing that Shaheen would beat Sununu in the 2008 Senate race (54–38). Other Democratic candidates did not have this type of lead, which led many to believe Shaheen would be the best choice to beat Sununu.

In April 2007, Shaheen met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer (D-New York) about a Senate run. Both said she would have strong support from the DSCC if she ran. On September 14, 2007, Shaheen announced her candidacy.^[28] On September 15, she formally launched her campaign at her home in Madbury, New Hampshire. On September 21, EMILY's List endorsed her campaign.

Shaheen defeated Sununu 52% to 45% (44,535 votes).

2014

Shaheen ran for reelection in 2014, facing former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown.^[29]

In March 2014, Brown announced he was forming an exploratory committee to run against Shaheen. According to the Boston Herald, "Granite State Republicans are calling U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen a hypocrite for asking potential GOP challenger and former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown to keep "outside" money out of the campaign while she fills the Democratic war chest on the West Coast".^[30]

In June 2014, WMUR reported that Shaheen had never released her tax returns in her 18 years of public service in New Hampshire. Shaheen said she would not rule out releasing her returns, but would like to see her opponent do so first.^[31]

She was endorsed again by Emily's List.^[32]

On election night, even as her party lost control of the Senate, Shaheen won reelection with 51% of the vote to Brown's 48%. As a measure of how Republican New Hampshire once was, Shaheen is only the second Democrat in the state's history to win two terms in the Senate.

2020

Shaheen was reelected in 2020 with 57% of the vote to Republican nominee Bryant “Corky” Messner's 41%. She is the first New Hampshire Democrat elected to three full terms in the Senate. The only other Democrat to be popularly elected more than once from New Hampshire, Thomas J. McIntyre (who held the seat Shaheen currently holds), served the remainder of Styles Bridges's last term before being elected to two terms in his own right.

Tenure

On January 3, 2009, Shaheen was sworn into the United States Senate. As a senator, she has sponsored 288 bills, five of which have become law.^[33]

On January 6, 2021, Shaheen was participating in the certification of the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol. She tweeted during the attack that she and her staff were safe and that "We will not be stopped from doing our Constitutional duty".^[34] The day after the attack, Shaheen called Trump "unfit for office" and said that she supported impeaching him and removing him from office.^[35]

Health care

In 2009, Shaheen partnered with U.S. Senator Susan Collins to introduce the Medicare Transitional Care Act, which provides follow-up care for discharged hospital patients to reduce re-hospitalizations.^[36] The bill passed in 2010,^[37] and research at the University of Pennsylvania predicted the measure would lower the cost of health care by as much as $5,000 per Medicare beneficiary while also improving health care quality and reducing re-hospitalizations.^[38]

In December 2009, Shaheen voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA; commonly called the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare).^[39]^[40]

In advance of the rollout of the PPACA, Shaheen said that people who liked their current health care plans could keep them.^[41] When asked about individuals who were losing their health care plans due to the PPACA, Shaheen said people could keep their health care plans if they were "willing to pay more."^[42]

In August 2019 Shaheen was one of 19 senators to sign a letter to United States Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar requesting data from the Trump administration in order to help states and Congress understand the potential consequences of the Texas v. United States Affordable Care Act lawsuit, writing that an overhaul of the present health care system would form "an enormous hole in the pocketbooks of the people we serve as well as wreck state budgets".^[43]

In October 2019 Shaheen was one of 27 senators to sign a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer advocating the passage of the Community Health Investment, Modernization, and Excellence (CHIME) Act, which was set to expire the following month. The senators warned that if the funding for the Community Health Center Fund (CHCF) was allowed to expire, it "would cause an estimated 2,400 site closures, 47,000 lost jobs, and threaten the health care of approximately 9 million Americans."^[44]

Fiscal

On October 11, 2011, Shaheen voted to proceed with a proposed bill that included $446 billion in spending on infrastructure and schools and provided funding for state and local governments, as well as an extension of the payroll tax deduction. The spending would have been paid for by a 5.6% surtax on incomes above $1 million. The bill failed to obtain cloture.^[45]

Shaheen used an earmark in a large appropriations bill to restore funding for a federal prison in Berlin, NH, despite a $276 million recommended cut.^[46]^[47]

Gun policy

Shaheen supports making it illegal for individuals on the terrorist watchlist to buy guns^[48] and voted in favor of a bill proposing to expand background checks for gun purchases.^[49] She also voted to ban magazines of over 10 bullets.^[50] In 2016, she participated in the Chris Murphy gun control filibuster in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting. Shaheen said that "moments of sympathy are not enough" and that common-sense gun laws must be enacted.^[51]

Energy

Following the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, Shaheen proposed abolishing the Minerals Management Service, the U.S. government agency tasked with regulating offshore drilling, arguing that reform had been insufficient and that a new agency was needed.^[52] Shaheen also proposed legislation giving the president's bipartisan BP Oil Spill Commission subpoena power in its investigation.^[53] She argued that subpoena power was necessary to avoid another such disaster, emphasizing the spill's economic costs to the Gulf Coast region and the economy as a whole.^[54]

On April 28, 2014, Shaheen introduced the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014 (S. 2262; 113th Congress), a bill intended to improve efficient energy use.^[55]

In March 2019 Shaheen was an original cosponsor of a bipartisan bill intended to mandate that the Environmental Protection Agency declare per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances as hazardous substances that can be addressed with cleanup funds via the EPA Superfund law and require that polluters undertake or pay for remediation within a year of the bill's enaction.^[56]

Shaheen opposed the Nord Stream 2, a pipeline for delivering natural gas from Russia to Germany.^[57]

Iraq War

In 2002, when Shaheen narrowly lost to Sununu, she supported both the 2003 invasion of Iraq and "regime change" for Iraq.^[58] Shaheen said that she came to supporting the policy of removing Saddam Hussein from power after meeting with former Clinton-administration National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. According to the Concord Monitor and Associated Press, the issue was a minor one in the race.

Shaheen later questioned George W. Bush's handling of the situation in Iraq. In a September 2004 televised interview as Kerry presidential campaign chair she said:^[59]

George [W.] Bush has taken us in the wrong direction. He misled us into war in Iraq. That war has not made us safer and more secure at home ... You know, we have not stabilized Afghanistan. We have not stabilized Iraq. There is no plan to win the peace.

On July 28, 2004, while serving as Chair of the Kerry-Edwards Campaign, Shaheen answered questions about her prior support of the Iraq war during an interview on C-SPAN.^[60]

George [W.] Bush said that the reason we needed to go to war in Iraq, the reason we needed to remove Saddam Hussein, was because he had weapons of mass destruction, weapons that could be used against this country, because he had ties to al-Qaeda and the terrorists who were responsible for the September 11 tragedy. What we know now and what George Bush and Dick Cheney have admitted is that in fact Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. (...) The links to al-Qaeda that the president talked about were not there. (...) While I appreciate that there was an effort to make people in this country think that [there was a connection] (...) the fact is that's not true.^[61]

War in Afghanistan

Shaheen opposed the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan under President Joe Biden.^[62]

LGBT rights

Shaheen initially opposed same-sex marriage as governor of New Hampshire, but in 2009 she came out in favor of marriage for same-sex couples and sponsored the Respect for Marriage Act.^[63] She also voted in favor of the repeal of Don't ask, don't tell, and supports government recognition of same-sex spouses of military and other government personnel.^[64]^{[better source needed]}

Minimum wage

On March 5, 2021, Shaheen voted against Bernie Sanders's amendment to include a $15/hour minimum wage in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.^[65]

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

Afterschool Caucuses^[66]
Senate National Guard Caucus (co-chair)^[67]

Electoral history

Governor elections in New Hampshire: Results 1996–2000

Year	Democratic	Votes	Pct	Republican	Votes	Pct	3rd Party	Party	Votes	Pct	3rd Party	Party	Votes	Pct
1996	Jeanne Shaheen	284,175	57%	Ovide Lamontagne	196,321	40%	Fred Bramante	Independent Reform	10,316	2%	Robert Kingsbury	Libertarian	5,974	1%
1998	Jeanne Shaheen (inc.)	210,769	66%	Jay Lucas	98,473	31%	Ken Blevens	Libertarian	8,655	3%	Write-ins	Write-ins	503	<1%
2000	Jeanne Shaheen (inc.)	275,038	49%	Gordon Humphrey	246,952	44%	Mary Brown	Independent	35,904	6%	John Babiarz	Libertarian	6,446	1%

U.S. Senate (Class II) elections in New Hampshire: Results 2002–2020^[68]
Year	Democratic	Votes	Pct	Republican	Votes	Pct	3rd Party	Party	Votes	Pct	3rd Party	Party	Votes	Pct
2002	Jeanne Shaheen	207,478	46%	John E. Sununu	227,229	51%	Ken Blevens	Libertarian	9,835	2%	Bob Smith	Write-in	2,396	1%	*
2008	Jeanne Shaheen	358,947	52%	John E. Sununu (inc.)	314,412	45%	Ken Blevens	Libertarian	21,381	3%
2014	Jeanne Shaheen (inc.)	251,184	51%	Scott Brown	235,347	48%
2020	Jeanne Shaheen (inc.)	450,771	57%	Corky Messner	326,229	41%	Justin O'Donnell	Libertarian	18,421	2%

*Write-in and minor candidate notes: In 2002, write-ins received 197 votes.

Primaries

New Hampshire Governor Democratic primary election, 1996
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Jeanne Shaheen	52,238	88%
Democratic	Lovett	4,286	7%
Democratic	Woodworth	2,609	4%

New Hampshire Governor Democratic primary election, 2000
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Jeanne Shaheen (inc.)	45,249	60%
Democratic	Mark Fernald	28,488	38%

U.S. Senate Democratic primary election in New Hampshire, 2008
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Jeanne Shaheen	43,968	89%
Democratic	Raymond Stebbins	5,281	11%

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External links

Senator Jeanne Shaheen official U.S. Senate website
Jeanne Shaheen for Senate Archived January 6, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
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Appearances on C-SPAN

Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
Profile at Vote Smart
Profile at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

Party political offices
Preceded by Wayne King	Democratic nominee for Governor of New Hampshire 1996, 1998, 2000	Succeeded by Mark Fernald
Preceded by Dick Swett	Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (Class 2) 2002, 2008, 2014, 2020	Most recent
Political offices
Preceded by Steve Merrill	Governor of New Hampshire 1997–2003	Succeeded by Craig Benson
U.S. Senate
Preceded by John Sununu	U.S. Senator (Class 2) from New Hampshire 2009–present Served alongside: Judd Gregg, Kelly Ayotte, Maggie Hassan	Incumbent
Preceded by Ben Cardin	Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee 2015–2018	Succeeded by Ben Cardin
Preceded by Ben Cardin	Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee 2023–present	Incumbent
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by Roger Wicker	Order of precedence of the United States as United States Senator	Succeeded by Mark Warner
Preceded by Roger Wicker	United States senators by seniority 26th	Succeeded by Mark Warner

[1] Katharine Q. Seelye (January 1, 2013). "From Congress to Halls of State, in New Hampshire, Women Rule". The New York Times.

[2] "Shaheen". Archived from the original on August 18, 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2012.

[10things-3] "10 Things You Didn't Know About Jeanne Shaheen". U.S. News & World Report. November 8, 2008. Retrieved September 8, 2014.

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v t e New Hampshire's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators	▌Jeanne Shaheen (D) ▌Maggie Hassan (D)
Representatives (ordered by district)	▌Chris Pappas (D) ▌Annie Kuster (D)

v t e Current United States senators
President: ▌ Kamala Harris (D) ‧ President pro tempore: ▌ Patty Murray (D)
AL: ▌ Tuberville (R) ⎣ ▌ Britt (R) AK: ▌ Murkowski (R) ⎣ ▌ Sullivan (R) AZ: ▌ Sinema (I) ⎣ ▌ Kelly (D) AR: ▌ Boozman (R) ⎣ ▌ Cotton (R) CA: ▌ Padilla (D) ⎣ ▌ Butler (D) CO: ▌ Bennet (D) ⎣ ▌ Hickenlooper (D) CT: ▌ Blumenthal (D) ⎣ ▌ Murphy (D) DE: ▌ Carper (D) ⎣ ▌ Coons (D) FL: ▌ Rubio (R) ⎣ ▌ R. Scott (R) GA: ▌ Ossoff (D) ⎣ ▌ Warnock (D) HI: ▌ Schatz (D) ⎣ ▌ Hirono (D) ID: ▌ Crapo (R) ⎣ ▌ Risch (R) IL: ▌ Durbin (D) ⎣ ▌ Duckworth (D) IN: ▌ Young (R) ⎣ ▌ Braun (R) IA: ▌ Grassley (R) ⎣ ▌ Ernst (R) KS: ▌ Moran (R) ⎣ ▌ Marshall (R) KY: ▌ McConnell (R) ⎣ ▌ Paul (R) LA: ▌ Cassidy (R) ⎣ ▌ Kennedy (R) ME: ▌ Collins (R) ⎣ ▌ King (I) MD: ▌ Cardin (D) ⎣ ▌ Van Hollen (D) MA: ▌ Warren (D) ⎣ ▌ Markey (D) MI: ▌ Stabenow (D) ⎣ ▌ Peters (D) MN: ▌ Klobuchar (D) ⎣ ▌ Smith (D) MS: ▌ Wicker (R) ⎣ ▌ Hyde-Smith (R) MO: ▌ Hawley (R) ⎣ ▌ Schmitt (R) MT: ▌ Tester (D) ⎣ ▌ Daines (R) NE: ▌ Fischer (R) ⎣ ▌ Ricketts (R) NV: ▌ Cortez Masto (D) ⎣ ▌ Rosen (D) NH: ▌ Shaheen (D) ⎣ ▌ Hassan (D) NJ: ▌ Booker (D) ⎣ ▌ Helmy (D) NM: ▌ Heinrich (D) ⎣ ▌ Luján (D) NY: ▌ Schumer (D) ⎣ ▌ Gillibrand (D) NC: ▌ Tillis (R) ⎣ ▌ Budd (R) ND: ▌ Hoeven (R) ⎣ ▌ Cramer (R) OH: ▌ Brown (D) ⎣ ▌ Vance (R) OK: ▌ Lankford (R) ⎣ ▌ Mullin (R) OR: ▌ Wyden (D) ⎣ ▌ Merkley (D) PA: ▌ Casey (D) ⎣ ▌ Fetterman (D) RI: ▌ Reed (D) ⎣ ▌ Whitehouse (D) SC: ▌ Graham (R) ⎣ ▌ T. Scott (R) SD: ▌ Thune (R) ⎣ ▌ Rounds (R) TN: ▌ Blackburn (R) ⎣ ▌ Hagerty (R) TX: ▌ Cornyn (R) ⎣ ▌ Cruz (R) UT: ▌ Lee (R) ⎣ ▌ Romney (R) VT: ▌ Sanders (I) ⎣ ▌ Welch (D) VA: ▌ Warner (D) ⎣ ▌ Kaine (D) WA: ▌ Murray (D) ⎣ ▌ Cantwell (D) WV: ▌ Manchin (I) ⎣ ▌ Capito (R) WI: ▌ Johnson (R) ⎣ ▌ Baldwin (D) WY: ▌ Barrasso (R) ⎣ ▌ Lummis (R)
▌ Republican: 49 ▌ Democratic: 47 ▌ Independent: 4

v t e Chairs of the United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Select Committee (1950–1981)	Sparkman Thye Sparkman Smathers Bible Nelson
Full Committee (1981–)	Weicker Bumpers Bond Kerry Bond Kerry Snowe Kerry Landrieu Cantwell Vitter Risch Rubio Cardin Shaheen

v t e United States senators from New Hampshire
Class 2	Wingate Livermore Olcott Gilman Thompson Morril S. Bell Hubbard Woodbury Jenness Cilley Hale Atherton Williams Hale Cragin Rollins Pike Cheney Chandler Marston Chandler Burnham Hollis Keyes Bridges Murphy McIntyre Humphrey Smith Sununu Shaheen
Class 3	Langdon Sheafe Plumer Parker Cutts Mason Storer Parrott Woodbury Hill Page Pierce Wilcox Atherton Norris Wells J. Bell Clark Fogg Patterson Wadleigh C. Bell Blair Gallinger Drew Moses Brown Tobey Upton Cotton Wyman Cotton Durkin Rudman Gregg Ayotte Hassan

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