Elise Marie Stefanik was born on July 2, 1984, in Albany, New York. She is the third-ranking House Republican, having served as chair of the House Republican Conference since 2021.
Stefanik’s district includes the majority of the North Country and Adirondacks, as well as some of Utica’s outer suburbs and New York’s Capital District. First elected as a centrist, she has gone more to the right.
Elise Stefanik Husband
Stefanik married Matthew Manda, a marketing and communications professional, on August 19, 2017, in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Stefanik and Manda relocated to Schuylerville, New York, in December 2018. Samuel, their firstborn, was born on August 27, 2021.
Elise Stefanik Net worth
She is the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives in 2014. Elise Stefanik’s net worth is estimated to be around $1.5 million as of 2022.
Elise Stefanik Children
She has one son, Samuel Albritton Manda, Rep. Elise Stefanik gave birth to her first son, Samuel Albritton Manda, at Saratoga Hospital while still in office.
Elise Stefanik and Politics
In August 2013, Stefanik declared her candidacy in the 2014 election for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York’s 21st congressional district.
The district had been in Republican hands for 100 years before Democrat Bill Owens was elected to represent it in a 2009 special election.
Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party nominee in 2009, endorsed Stefanik. At age 30, she became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress at the time.
Stefanik was appointed to the House Armed Services Committee’s Policy Committee in January 2015 and vice-chair of its Subcommittee on Readiness in February 2015.
She led recruitment for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) in the 2018 House elections.
In December 2018, Stefanik announced she would leave the NRCC to create a “leadership PAC” dedicated to recruiting Republican women to run for office.
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