Kelly Ayotte
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"Kelly Ann Ayotte" is an American politician and the junior United States Senate/United States senator from New Hampshire, serving since 2011. A member of the Republican Party (United States)/Republican Party, she is List of current United States Senators by age/the second youngest of the 20 female Senators, and the eleventh-youngest overall.

Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, Ayotte is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and Villanova University School of Law. She worked as a law clerk for the New Hampshire Supreme Court before entering private practice. She also worked as a prosecutor for the New Hampshire Department of Justice, and briefly served as the legal counsel to Governor of New Hampshire/New Hampshire governor Craig Benson, before returning to the Department of Justice to serve as deputy attorney general of New Hampshire. In June 2004, Governor Benson appointed Ayotte as attorney general of New Hampshire, after the resignation of Peter Heed. She became New Hampshire's first woman attorney general, serving from 2004 to 2009, after she was twice reappointed by Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic governor John Lynch (New Hampshire)/John Lynch. In July 2009, Ayotte resigned as attorney general to pursue a bid for the U.S. Senate, after three term incumbent Judd Gregg announced his retirement from the Senate.

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