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Susan Hutchison
Susan Hutchison


Susan Hutchison is a former TV news journalist and was the 2018 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Washington state, losing to incumbent Maria Cantwell. Hutchison was born March 24, 1954 at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, the daughter of a U.S. Air Force pilot. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1975. After graduation, she began working for a subsidiary of ABC. In 1978, she was hired as the weekend sports anchor and producer for KITV […]
Gina Ortiz Jones
Gina Ortiz Jones


Gina Ortiz Jones was the 2018 and 2020 Democratic nominee for Texas' 23rd congressional district. She is an American Iraq War veteran and intelligence officer. Attending college on an ROTC scholarship, Ortiz Jones earned a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian studies and Master of Arts in economics from Boston College in 2003. She later earned a master's degree in military arts and sciences at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies of the United States Army Command and General Staff College. After college, Ortiz Jones joined the U.S. […]
Cary Kennedy
Cary Kennedy


Cary Kennedy was a Democratic candidate for governor of Colorado in 2018. A native of Colorado, Kennedy spent her early years in Evergreen and Denver. She received a bachelor's degree from St. Lawrence University, a master's degree from Columbia University, and a law degree from the University of Denver. Kennedy started her career as a staff member of the governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting. She continued to hold different positions in public service for the next 20 years, including fiscal analyst of the Colorado Department of Health Care […]
Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt


Karoline Leavitt ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District in 2022, losing in the general election. Leavitt was born on August 24, 1998, in New Hampshire. Coming from a business-orientated family, Leavitt began working at her family’s small business at a young age. This would be the stepping stone into her positionality within politics. Leavitt graduated from Saint Anselm College in 2019, earning a degree in politics and communication. She spent time volunteering at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics while she was […]
Beth Lindstrom
Beth Lindstrom


Beth Lindstrom was the 2018 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. Lindstrom is from Groton, Massachusetts. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in communications from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from Northeastern University. Most of her career has been in the private sector, working for and owning several small businesses. Lindstrom started her political career when she was named by Mitt Romney to be the director of consumer affairs and business regulation in 2003.
Betsy Dirksen Londrigan
Betsy Dirksen Londrigan


Betsy Dirksen Londrigan was the 2018 and 2020 Democratic nominee to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 13th Congressional District of Illinois, losing in the general election both times. Londrigan was born and raised in Springfield, Illinois, and graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After graduation, she was a corps member with Teach For America, teaching 7th and 8th grade in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a former staffer for Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and worked at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation for seven years before beginning her […]
Carolyn Long
Carolyn Long


Carolyn Long was the 2018 Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for Washington state's 3rd Congressional district. Long received her Bachelor of Arts in political science and rhetoric and communication from the University of Oregon in 1989 and her Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University in 1997. She is an associate professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington State University Vancouver.
Wendy Long
Wendy Long


Wendy Long was the 2016 nominee of the Republican Party, Conservative Party of New York State and Reform Party of the United States of America for the United States Senate in New York, but lost to Democratic incumbent Senator Chuck Schumer. Long was born in 1960 in Worcester, Massachusetts. She received her A.B. from Dartmouth College. After graduation, she worked for Senator William L. Armstrong of Colorado and Senator Gordon J. Humphrey of New Hampshire, and was a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute. She earned her J.D. from Northwestern […]
Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning


Chelsea Manning was a 2018 Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate for Maryland, losing in the primary. Manning was born on December 17, 1987, in Crescent, Oklahoma, as Bradley Manning. As an adult, Manning was granted the right to be legally recognized as Chelsea Elizabeth Manning. After joining the Army, Manning was sent to Iraq in 2009, where she had access to classified information that she described as profoundly troubling. Manning gave much of this information to WikiLeaks and was later arrested. In 2013, Manning was found guilty of espionage […]
Lea Marquez Peterson
Lea Marquez Peterson


Lea Marquez Peterson was the 2018 Republican nominee for the U.S. House to represent Arizona District 2, losing to incumbent Ann Kirkpatrick. Marquez Peterson received her undergraduate degrees in marketing and entrepreneurship from the University of Arizona and her Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. An entrepreneur and small business owner, Peterson previously owned and operated a chain of gas stations and convenience stores in the Tucson area, as well as a business brokerage firm. Since 2009, Marquez Peterson has served as president & CEO of the Tucson Hispanic […]