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Peter Elliott Shumlin〔Town Hall, (2010 candidate profile, Peter Shumlin )〕 (born March 24, 1956) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who serves as the 81st and current Governor of Vermont and has served as chair of the Democratic Governors Association since December 2012. First elected Governor in 2010, he was re-elected by a large margin in 2012. In 2014 he received a narrow plurality in his race for re-election, but did not attain the 50 percent threshold required by the Vermont Constitution, requiring the Vermont General Assembly to select the winner in January 2015. He was subsequently re-elected to a third term by the legislature by a vote of 110-69. On June 8, 2015, Shumlin announced that he will not seek re-election in 2016. He previously served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1990 to 1993 and represented the Windham District in the Vermont Senate from 1993 to 2003 and 2007 to 2011. He was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 2002.〔Burlington Free Press, (The Shumlin Era Dawns This Week in Montpelier ), January 2, 2011〕 ==Personal life, education and career== Shumlin was born in Brattleboro, Vermont.〔Paul Anthony Theis, Edmund Lee Henshaw, (Who's Who in American Politics ), Volume 2, 1991〕 He went to high school at the Buxton School, and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1979.〔(Peter Shumlin ), Project Vote Smart〕 Shumlin served on the Putney Selectboard in the 1980s and helped found Landmark College, which was created to help people with learning disabilities gain a college education. Shumlin's father, George J. Shumlin, a third-generation American, was Jewish and descended from Russian immigrants; Shumlin's mother, Kitty A. (Prins) Shumlin, was from The Hague, Netherlands.〔〔Phil Baruth, Vermont Daily Briefing, (Shumlin Returns: The VDB Sit-Down ), March 20, 2007〕〔Shumlin for Governor, (Meet Peter )〕〔http://vtdigger.org/2014/04/11/george-shumlin-father-gov-peter-shumlin-dies-88/〕 Shumlin has two daughters with his ex-wife, Deborah Holway, to whom he was married from 1989 to 2013.〔〔Burlington Free Press, (Shumlin Divorce Finalized ), April 3, 2013〕 On September 17, 2015 he announced his engagement to long time girlfriend Kate Hunt, and indicated that they plan to be married within the next year. 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「Peter Shumlin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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