Kirsten Gillibrand Biography
Kirsten Gillibrand is an American politician and lawyer who has been the junior United States Senator from New York since 2009. She was a Democrat who served in the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2009.
How old is Kirsten Gillibrand? – Age
She is 56 years old as of 9 December 2022. She was born in 1966 in Albany, New York, United States. Her real name is Kirsten Elizabeth Gillibrand.
Kirsten Gillibrand Family – Education
Polly Edwina (Noonan) and Douglas Paul Rutnik are her parents. Her parents are both lawyers, and her father has worked as a lobbyist. Her parents split up in the late 1980s. Douglas Rutnik works for former U.S. Senator Al D’Amato. Gillibrand has a younger sister and an older brother. Her maternal grandparents were businessman Peter Noonan and Dorothea “Polly” Noonan, founder of the Albany Democratic Women’s Club and city Democratic political machine leader.
Gillibrand’s ancestors are English, Austrian, Scottish, German, and Irish. Gillibrand, who was born in 1984, attended Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, before enrolling at Dartmouth College. She studied Asian Studies and lived in Beijing and Taiwan. She received her magna cum laude degree in 1988 and was a member of the Dartmouth sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma. During college, Gillibrand interned at Senator Al D’Amato’s Albany office. She earned her J.D. from UCLA Law School and passed the bar test in 1991.
Kirsten Gillibrand Husband – Children
On a blind date, Gillibrand met her husband, Jonathan Gillibrand, a venture investor and British national. Jonathan had intended to spend only a year in the United States while studying for his Master of Business Administration at Columbia University, but he stayed due of their budding love. In 2001, they married in a Catholic church in Manhattan.
Their first son, Theodore, was born in 2003, and their second son, Henry, was born in 2008. Gillibrand worked until Henry’s delivery and received a standing ovation from her colleagues in the House for it.
Kirsten Gillibrand Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $600 thousand.
Kirsten Gillibrand Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.67m).
Kirsten Gillibrand Weight Gain
She had gained twenty pounds of baby weight after the birth of her second son, Henry, in 2008, on top of the twenty pounds she had gained after the birth of her first son, Theodore, in 2004. After a year of breastfeeding Henry, Gillibrand began a diet. It took her a year to regain her form. She is just the sixth member of Congress to have a child while in office, and she frames her political platform as “kids-first.”
She eats her lunch in the Senate cafeteria, which one frequent visitor recently described as serving “hospital grade” food.She eats grilled chicken and steamed vegetables there. She has low-fat cheese and an apple for an afternoon snack. Or, on sometimes, nonfat, sugar-free yogurt with a piece of fruit.
Kirsten Gillibrand Committee
Gillibrand announced the formation of an exploratory committee to consider running for the Democratic candidacy in the 2020 United States presidential election on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in early 2019. During her January 15 visit, she stated, “I am going to run,” and the Gillibrand 2020 Exploratory Committee was formed the same day, according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission. Before her declaration, Gillibrand was widely discussed in the media as a prospective 2020 candidate, but during a 2018 Senate campaign debate, she committed to serve her whole six-year term if reelected.
On March 17, Gillibrand announced her official presidential campaign on Twitter. She committed, like other Democratic candidates, not to accept campaign contributions from political action committees.
Kirsten Gillibrand Election
In the Democratic primary election on September 14, 2010, Gillibrand faced a slew of possible opponents. Some were visible during the appointment. Representative Carolyn McCarthy, for example, was dissatisfied with Gillibrand’s attitude on gun control, but she decided not to run. Former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., pondered running but decided against it in March 2009.
Concerned about a potential breach in the party, which may result in a contentious primary, a split electorate, and a weakened posture, high-ranking members of the party backed Gillibrand and asked significant opponents not to run. In the end, Gillibrand defeated Gail Goode, a New York City lawyer, and won the primary with 76% of the vote.
Despite the fact that the contest was supposed to be close, Gillibrand comfortably defeated former Republican congressman Joseph DioGuardi in her maiden statewide election. A Quinnipiac University Polling Institute poll taken at the end of October showed Gillibrand leading 57%-34%. Gillibrand won the November election 63%-35%, sweeping 54 of New York’s 62 counties; DioGuardi won by a margin of no more than 10%.
Gillibrand’s victory in the special election gave her the opportunity to finish Clinton’s second term, which concluded in January 2013. In November 2012, Gillibrand ran for a full six-year term. Wendy E. Long, an attorney running on both the Republican and Conservative Party lines, faced her in the main election.
The New York Times and the Democrat and Chronicle both endorsed Gillibrand. She received 72.2% of the vote, surpassing Schumer’s 71.2% victory in 2004 and achieving the greatest victory margin for a statewide candidate in New York history. Except for two counties in western New York, she carried every county.