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Peter Trafton Snowe (January 16, 1943 – April 10, 1973) was an American businessman and politician.
Shortly after graduation, Bouchles married her fiancé, Republican state legislator Peter T. Snowe, on December 29, 1969, in New York City. [ 12 ] Early political career
On December 29, 1969, she married Republican state legislator Peter T. Snowe and became Olympia J. Snowe. Shortly after graduation, Snowe entered politics and began working with Congressman William Cohen on the Board of Voter Registration.
Mientras Snowe era primera dama de Maine, de 1989 a 1995, fue miembro del Congreso de los Estados Unidos. La tragedia volvió a golpear a Snowe en 1991, cuando su hijastro Peter McKernan murió de una dolencia cardíaca a la edad de 20 años. 6 .
Orphaned at the age of nine and widowed at 26, Olympia, with the support of family and friends, overcame tragedy to embark on a remarkable political career which took her from the State House in Maine to the halls of Congress, where in 2006, TIME Magazine named her one of the top ten U.S. Senators.
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Known for her commitment to compromise and consensus building, Snowe, the 67-year-old moderate Republican, retired from the Senate in January 2013, expressing her frustration with the “atmosphere of polarization and ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies.”
