Kelly ayotte biography
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Kelly Ayotte
Governor of New Hampshire since 2025
Kelly Ann Ayotte (AY-ott;[2] born June 27, 1968) is an American attorney and politician serving since 2025 as the 83rd governor of New Hampshire. A member of the Republican Party, she served from 2011 to 2017 as a United States senator from New Hampshire and from 2004 to 2009 as Attorney General of New Hampshire.
Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, Ayotte is a graduate of Nashua High School, Pennsylvania State University, and Villanova University School of Law. She worked as a law clerk at the New Hampshire Supreme Court before entering private practice. She served as a prosecutor for the New Hampshire Department of Justice and briefly as the legal counsel to New Hampshire GovernorCraig Benson before returning to the Department of Justice to serve as deputy attorney general of New Hampshire. In 2004, Benson appointed Ayotte as attorney general of New Hampshire after Peter Heed resigned. She became the first and only wo
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Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ann Ayotte (born June 28, 1968) is an American politician who has been the 83rd Governor of New Hampshire since 2025. From 2011 to 2017 she was the junior U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. She was Attorney General of New Hampshire from 2004 to 2009.[2]
During the 2016 New Hampshire senate elections, Ayotte narrowly lost her seat to GovernorMaggie Hassan by less than 720 votes.
In July 2023, Ayotte announced her campaign for Governor of New Hampshire in the 2024 election. She is a Republican.[3] She won the election in November 2024.
Ayotte was born on June 28, 1968 in Nashua, New Hampshire. She graduated from the Pennsylvania State University. Ayotte later graduated from Villanova University School of Law. She married Joseph Daley in 2001. They have two children.
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Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte assumed office as governor of New Hampshire on January 9, 2025. Ayotte served as New Hampshire's United States senator from 2011 to 2017.
Ayotte was born June 27, 1968, in Nashua, New Hampshire. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in political science. In 1993, she graduated from Villanova University School of lag with a Juris Doctor.
From 1993-1994, Ayotte served as a lag clerk in the New Hampshire supreme court, then worked in private practice until 1998 when she became a prosecutor in the New Hampshire attorney general’s office, later becoming head of the homicide division. In 2003, she was named state deputy attorney general and in 2004 she became first female attorney general in New Hampshire.
Ayotte resigned as attorney general to run for the U.S. Senate in 2011, winning that election. She ran for re-election in 2016, losing to Governor Maggie Hassan in a very tight race. After leaving office, Ayott