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Senate Years of Service: 2009- Party: Democrat
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GILLIBRAND, Kirsten, a Representative and Senator from New York; born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., December 9, 1966; A.B., Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1988;
J.D., University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif., 1991; lawyer,
private practice; special council, United States Housing and Urban Development;
elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Tenth Congress and to the succeeding
Congress, and served from January 3, 2007, to January 26, 2009, when she
resigned to become a U.S. Senator; appointed January 23, 2009, to the United
States Senate for the term ending January 3, 2013, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Hillary Clinton; appointment took effect upon her
resignation from the House of Representatives on January 26, 2009, took the
oath of office on January 27, 2009.
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