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Sarah Louise Palin was born in Sandpoint, Idaho on February 11, 1964. Palin is an American politician who served as Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. She was the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States in 2008.

Sarah Palin was the third of four children born to Sarah and Charles R. Heath, respectively a school secretary and science teacher / track coach.

The family moved to Alaska when she was an infant. She attended Wasilla High School, where she was the head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and a member of the girls’ cross country team. As captain and point guard of the school’s girls’ basketball team that won the Alaska state championship in 1982, she gained the nickname “Barracuda” for her competitive streak. She graduated in 1982.

She attended Hawaii Pacific University in the Fall of 1982 and North Idaho College (whose Alumni Association gave her the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award in June 2008) in the Spring and Fall of 1983. In 1984, after winning the Miss Wasilla pageant, she finished third in the Miss Alaska pageant, receiving the “Miss Congeniality” award and a college scholarship.

She attended the University of Idaho in the Fall of 1984 and Spring of 1985, Matanuska-Susitna College in the Fall of 1985, and the University of Idaho again in the Spring and Fall of 1986 and the Fall of 1987, when she received her Bachelor’s degree in communications with an emphasis in journalism.

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Sarah Palin was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996 and the city’s mayor from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 until her resignation in 2004. She was elected Governor of Alaska in November 2006. Palin became the first female governor of Alaska and the youngest person ever elected governor of that state.

In 2008, Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose Palin as his running mate in that year’s presidential election, making her the second female candidate and the first Alaskan candidate of either major party on a national ticket, as well as the first female vice-presidential nominee of the Republican Party. Since the defeat of the McCain–Palin ticket in the 2008 election, there has been speculation that she may run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

On July 3, 2009, Palin announced she would not seek reelection as governor and that she was resigning, effective July 26, 2009, eighteen months prior to the completion of her first term. She cited ethics complaints that had been filed following her selection as running mate to John McCain as the reason for her resignation, saying the resulting investigations had affected her efficacy to govern the state.

Her political enemies had filed 19 seperate ethics complaints against her. She won every one of them but accumulated attornies fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Her recent tax returns showed a family income of less than $200,00 a year.

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