Sarah Palin

Described as

Governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009

Other names

Sarah Louise Palin, Sarah Louise Heath Palin, Sarah Louise Heath, Sarah Heath, Sarah Heath Palin, Sarah H. Palin

Born

February 11, 1964 · 6 references

Born in

Sandpoint · 1 reference

Name at birth

Sarah Louise Heath

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

politician · 1 reference; autobiographer; model; anti-vaccine activist; mayor · 1 reference

Positions held

Governor of Alaska (2006–2009); Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (1996–2002) · 1 reference

Political party

Republican Party

Education

University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo; North Idaho College (1983); University of Idaho (1986–1987); Wasilla High School; Hawaii Pacific University (1982); Matanuska–Susitna College (1985)

Awards

Alaska Women's Hall of Fame (2009) · 1 reference

Spouse

Todd Palin (1988–2020) · 1 reference

Children

Bristol Palin; Piper Palin; Track Palin; Willow Palin; Trig Palin

Father

Chuck Heath

Mother

Sarah 'Sally' Sheeran · 1 reference

Religion

Christianity; Protestantism · 1 reference

Lived in

Idaho; Wasilla · 1 reference

Website

https://www.sarahpalin.com/

Wikipedias with a page

104

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Sarah Louise Palin ( PAY-lin; née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator, and author who served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. She was the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee on the ticket of U.S. senator John McCain.
Palin was elected to the Wasilla city council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996. In 2003, after an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor, she was appointed chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, responsible for overseeing the state's oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency. In 2006, at age 42, she became the youngest person and the first woman to be elected governor of Alaska. Immense legal fees incurred by both Palin and the state of Alaska from her fights against ethics investigations led to her resignation in 2009.
Palin was nominated as John McCain's vice presidential running mate at the 2008 Republican National Convention. She was the first Republican female vice presidential nominee and the second female vice presidential nominee of a major party, after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. The McCain-Palin ticket subsequently lost the 2008 election to the Democratic Party's then-U.S. senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Throughout the race, her public image and experience came under media attention. Although her vice presidential bid alongside McCain was unsuccessful, the 2008 presidential election significantly raised Palin's national profile.
Since her resignation as governor in 2009, she has campaigned for the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement. In addition, she has publicly endorsed several candidates in multiple election cycles, including Donald Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign. She has also led a career as a television personality. From 2010 to 2015, she provided political commentary for Fox News. She hosted TLC's Sarah Palin's Alaska in 2010–11 and Amazing America with Sarah Palin on the Sportsman Channel in 2014–15. From 2014 to 2015, she oversaw a short-lived subscriber-based online TV channel, the Sarah Palin Channel, via TAPP TV. Her personal memoir, Going Rogue, written following the 2008 election, sold more than one million copies.
In 2022, Palin ran in the special election for Alaska's at-large congressional seat that was vacated after the death of Representative Don Young, but lost to Democrat Mary Peltola, who completed Young's unfinished term. Palin faced Peltola and others again in the November general election for the same seat, and again lost to Peltola, who won re-election to serve a full two-year term.

Born, in its opening lines

February 11, 1964

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