Jeanne Shaheen: podcast appearances and interviews

Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the senior United States senator from New Hampshire since 2009. She is the first woman elected to both the governorship and the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, having previously served as the 78th governor of the state from 1997 to 2003. Shaheen was elected governor after serving two terms in the New Hampshire Senate and was reelected twice. She ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2002 but was elected in a rematch against Republican nominee John E. Sununu in 2008, serving as the dean of New Hampshire’s congressional delegation since 2011. Shaheen became the first Democratic senator from New Hampshire since John A. Durkin, and in 2014, she was reelected to a second term, becoming only the second Democrat from the state since 1972 to do so. She was reelected to a third term in 2020. Following the death of Dianne Feinstein in 2023, Shaheen became the oldest serving female U.S. senator. In 2025, she announced that she would not seek reelection in 2026.