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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 […]
Mary Matiella
Mary Matiella


Mary Matiella was a 2018 Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona’s 2nd District, but lost in the primaries. Matiella was born in Three Rivers, Texas, on June 21, 1950, and grew up in Tuscan, Arizona. She earned her Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Business Administration from the University of Arizona and her Doctor of Education in organizational development from George Washington University. Matiella served as a budget analyst at Ramstein Air Base from 1980 to 1983, as a systems accountant for the United States Air […]
Mary Mayhew
Mary Mayhew


Mary Mayhew is a lobbyist and former Maine commissioner of Health and Human Services. She was a 2018 Republican candidate for governor of Maine, but lost in the primary. Mayhew was born in 1965 and grew up in Pittsfield, Maine. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in political science at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Mayhew served as a legislative assistant in Washington, D.C., for Arkansas Congressman William Alexander and then worked as a manager of state government relations for Equifax Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. She moved back to Maine […]
Katie McGinty
Katie McGinty


Kathleen Alana "Katie" McGinty was the 2016 Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Pennsylvania. She faced incumbent Senator Pat Toomey in the general election and lost. McGinty was born May 11, 1963, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has a B.S. in chemistry from Saint Joseph's University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. After law school, McGinty clerked for a federal judge but did not take the bar exam or practice law. She was a legislative assistant to Senator Al Gore of Tennessee. In 1993, she became a deputy […]
Amy McGrath
Amy McGrath


Amy McGrath was the 2020 Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky, losing to incumbent Mitch McConnell in the general election. McGrath was the 2018 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives for Kentucky's 6th congressional district, losing to incumbent Andy Barr. McGrath was born in 1975 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in in Edgewood, Kentucky. She graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science in political science, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. In 2011, […]
Andy McGuire
Andy McGuire


Andy McGuire served as chair of the Iowa Democratic Party from January 2015 to January 2017 and was a Democratic candidate for governor of Iowa in 2018. McGuire was born in Waterloo, Iowa, on November 26, 1956. She received her B.S. from Creighton University, her M.D. from Creighton University School of Medicine, and her MBA from Kennesaw State University – Michael J Coles College of Business. McGuire worked at Washington University in nuclear medicine, and then moved to Iowa to start a family with her husband. She worked at Des […]
Jamie McLeod-Skinner
Jamie McLeod-Skinner


Jamie McLeod-Skinner was the 2022 Democratic nominee for Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, but lost in the general election. McLeod-Skinner was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 31, 1967. She graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in civil engineering in 1992. She received a master’s degree in city and regional planning from Cornell University in 1995. In 2016, she graduated with a J.D. from the University of Oregon. McLeod-Skinner began her public service career managing the repairs of schools and hospitals in Bosnia and Kosovo before returning to the […]
Jan Morgan
Jan Morgan


Jan Morgan was a Republican candidate for governor of Arkansas in 2018. Morgan is a 2nd Amendment advocate and speaker, NRA-certified firearms instructor, NRA-certified range safety officer, state police-certified concealed carry instructor, founder of Armed American Woman, and owner of The Gun Cave Indoor Firing Range in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Morgan served two terms on the executive board of the Arkansas State Baptist Convention.
Jessica Morse
Jessica Morse


Jessica Morse was a 2018 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 4th Congressional District, but lost to incumbent Tom McClintock in the general election.