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Palin, Sarah

Biography

American politician and Republican candidate for the US Vice President in the 2008 election. Prior to being selected by John McCain (candidate for President), she was Governor of Alaska for 18 months and mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

Palin's family moved to Alaska when she was three months old. She is is third-born among four siblings born to Chuck and Sally Heath, a teacher and a school secretary respectively.

In high school she was a star basketball player nicknamed "The Barracuda" and went on to enter a local beauty pageant, ultimately placing second in the statewide competition. After attending three other colleges (and the University of Idaho for a previous term), Palin graduated in 1987 from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism and a minor in political science.

On 29 August 1988, she married her high school sweetheart Todd Palin, an athletic man who has worked as a commerical fisherman and part-time oilman. He won the Iron Dog snowmobile race (nearly 2000 miles long) four times. An athlete herself, she ran at least one marathon and

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Sarah Heath Palin arrived in Alaska with her family in 1964. She graduated from Wasilla High School and has lived in Skagway, Eagle River and Wasilla. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho in 1987.

Sarah Palin made history on Dec. 4, 2006, when she became the first woman elected governor of Alaska. Her priorities were resource development, education and workforce development, public health and safety, and transportation and infrastructure development.

Under her leadership, Alaska invested $5 billion in state savings, overhauled education funding, and implemented the Senior Benefits Program to provide support for low-income older Alaskans. She created Alaska’s Petroleum Systems Integrity Office to oversee maintenance of oil and gas equipment, facilities and infrastructure, and a Climate Change Subcabinet to prepare a climate change strategy for Alaska. Palin’s administration passed major legislation that began a competitive process to construct a gas pipeline and overhauled state ethics laws.

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Second-in-Command | Profile of Governor Sarah Palin

By Jared McDonald 11/03/08 5:00am

Name: Sarah Louise Heath Palin

Party Affiliation: Republican

Birthday: Feb. 11, 1964

Birthplace/Where she has lived: Palin was born in Sandpoint, Idaho and moved to Skagway, Alaska as an infant. In 1972, she moved to Wasilla, Alaska, where she lived until college.

Education: Palin attended Wasilla High School in Wasilla, Alaska.

In 1982, she attended Hawaii Pacific College for one semester. After two semesters at North Idaho community college, she transferred to the University of Idaho, where she stayed for two semesters. She then studied at Matanuska-Susitna community college in Alaska, and then returned to the University of Idaho where she received a degree in communications-journalism in 1987.

Previous jobs: Palin worked as a sportscaster at an NBC affiliate station in Anchorage until 1989, and as a sports reporter for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman. She also co-owned her husband's fishing company until 2007.

Palin's political career started in 1992, when she b