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Jane Ellen "Bonnie" Newman (born June 2, 1945) is an American

administrator and business executive who was selected to be the United States Senator from New Hampshire

but did not take office when the vacancy she was to fill did not materialize.

Education and early life

Newman was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts

, the daughter of Louise (née Casey) and William Newman, who work at New England Telephone She Attended St. Augustine's School in Tower Hill in Lawrence,Mass. She now resides in North Hampton, New Hampshire

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Newman has a B.A. degree in sociology from St. Joseph’s College of Maine

and M.Ed. degree in higher education administration from The Pennsylvania State University

Career

Newman was the Assistant Dean of Students at the University of New Hampshire

from 1969 to 1972 and Dean of Students from 1972 to 1978.

She served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for economic development in the Reagan administration from 1984 to 1985. She then served as president of the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire in Concord from 1985 to 1988, before taking charge of administrative operations during the administration of George H. W. Bush. She was chief of staff to Judd Gregg when he was in the United States House of Representatives in the 1980s.

Later, Newman was interim Dean of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire from 1998 to 1999. She also served as the executive dean at the Harvard University

Kennedy School of Government from 2000 to 2005. Newman also served as interim president of the University of New Hampshire and is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Newman is chairman of the United States Naval Academy Board of Visitors.

Political activities

Newman was one of the first Republicans to publicly endorse John Lynch, a Democrat, in his successful 2004 challenge of then-Republican Governor Craig Benson, and co-chaired Republicans for Lynch. Presumably as a result of this endorsement, she was banned from the exclusive Golf Club of New England in 2005.

Appointment to United States Senate

On February 3, 2009, President Barack Obama announced that he would appoint Republican Sen. Judd Gregg as the Secretary of Commerce. Later in the day, New Hampshire Governor John Lynch announced that he would appoint Newman to the United States Senate to fill Gregg's seat. Newman announced that she would not run for reelection in 2010, nor would she endorse any candidate in that race. The choice to nominate Newman came after initial discussions of Gregg being appointed to be the Secretary of Commerce. In face of Senate Republican Leaders asking Gregg to reconsider, Gregg reached a deal with Gov. John Lynch that he would appoint a placeholder in order to avoid changing the partisan makeup of the United States Senate. However, on February 12, 2009, citing "irresolvable conflicts," Gregg announced he was withdrawing his nomination for the position of Commerce Secretary and remaining in the Senate.

Political positions

During the nine days she was slated to succeed Judd Gregg in the United States Senate, Newman stated that she had interests in serving on committee dealing with issues relating to national security, the economy and education.