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Stabenow was born in Gladwin, Michigan and grew up in Clare, Michigan. She graduated from Clare High School. She received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 19721972 is a leap year starting on Saturday (click link for calendar). Events January events January 2 the Pierre Hotel Heist Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million January 5 President of the Un and an M.S.W. magna cum laude from Michigan State University in 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i. While in graduate school, Stabenow won her first election, to the Ingham CountyIngham County is a county located in the U. State of Michigan. As of 2000, the population is 279,320. Its county seat is Mason 6. Lansing, the state capitol of Michigan, is also within the county. Ingham County was set off by an act of the Michigan Territ Board of Commissioners, a position in which she served from 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i- 1978Events January January 1 The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay 213 dead. January 4 Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet.. She has also worked as a social worker, and a leadership training consultant. She served in the Michigan State House of RepresentativesThe Michigan State House of Representatives is the lower body of the Michigan Legislature. There are 110 Representatives, each of whom is elected from districts having approximately 77,000 to 91,000 residents, based on population figures from the U. Repre from 1979Events January-February January 1 Sino-American relations: United States and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations January 4 State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of dead and injured in Kent State University shootings.- 1990, where she became the first woman to preside over the house. She also served in the State Senate from 1991- 1994. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996 from Michigan's Eighth District and served two terms. She did not seek reelection to the House of Representatives in 2000, but was elected to the U.S. Senate.

She is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Budget, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. She introduced the Medical Equity and Drug Savings Act in the Senate.

Stabenow is only the second person from Michigan to have served in both houses of the Michigan State Legislature and in both houses of the United States Congress. The first was Thomas W. Ferry. Stabenow is also the first person to have served as state legislator to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate (until enactment of the Seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913, U.S. Senators were selected by the state legislature). No former state legislator had served in the U.S. Senate since 1894, when Francis B. Stockbridge died.

Stabenow became the third-ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate on November 16, 2004, when she was elected by her colleagues to be secretary of the Democratic caucus. As caucus secretary, she will assist Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to set the Democrats' agenda and priorities. Reid was elected to replace Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who lost a re-election bid in South Dakota. Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was elected Minority Whip, the Democrats' second-ranking spot.