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thumb Elizabeth Henderson Esty (born August 25, 1959) is the U.S. Representative for , having been elected on November 6, 2012 and reelected on November 4, 2014. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Previously she was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, representing the 103rd Assembly District, which consisted of Cheshire and parts of Hamden and Wallingford. She also served two terms on the Cheshire Town Council. The 5th congressional district spans central and northwest Connecticut, including Waterbury, Danbury, New Britain, Meriden, Torrington, Litchfield County, the Farmington Valley, Newtown, and Esty's hometown of Cheshire. Esty defeated two challengers in the August 14, 2012, Democratic primary to become the Democratic nominee in Connecticut's 5th congressional district, and on November 6, 2012, she defeated challenger Andrew Roraback. Esty defeated Mark Greenberg on November 4, 2014, in the state's most competitive district to win her first reelection. ==Early life, education, and career== Elizabeth Henderson was born in 1959 in Oak Park, Illinois.〔()〕 Her father worked as an engineer in a construction company and the family moved numerous times during her childhood. She was raised in Minnesota and graduated from Winona Senior High School. She earned an A.B. from Harvard College in 1981 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1985. She also studied International Relations at L'Institut d'études politiques in Paris for a year on a Rotary Scholarship.〔http://ct5thdistrict.registercitizen.com/elizabeth-esty/〕 Esty volunteered for Planned Parenthood in college.〔http://ct5thdistrict.registercitizen.com/elizabeth-esty/4/〕 Esty has been a law clerk for a federal judge, a Supreme Court lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, DC, and Professor at American University. She is a member of the Cheshire Public Library Board, Legal Advisor to the Connecticut League of Women Voters Consensus Project, Chair of the Board of Trustees for the First Congregational Church of Cheshire, lay member of the Committee on Ministry New Haven Association of the United Church of Christ, and a member of the Parent-Teacher Association.〔http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/72826〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Esty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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