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Who is Susan Collins?
Susan Margaret Collins, born December 7, 1952, is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maine.
A member of the Republican Party, she has held her seat since 1997 and is Maine’s longest-serving member of Congress.
Born in Caribou, Maine, Collins is a graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.
Beginning her career as a staff assistant for Senator William Cohen in 1975, she became staff director of the Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee of the Committee on Governmental Affairs (which later became the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs) in 1981.
Governor John R. McKernan Jr. then appointed her commissioner of the Maine Department of Professional and Financial Regulation in 1987.
In 1992 President George H. W. Bush appointed her director of the Small Business Administration’s regional office in Boston. Collins became a deputy state treasurer in the office of the Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts in 1993.
After moving back to Maine in 1994, she became the Republican nominee for governor of Maine in the 1994 general election.
She was the first female major-party nominee for the post, finishing third in a four-way race with 23% of the vote. After her bid for governor in 1994, she became the founding director of the Center for Family Business at Husson University in Bangor, Maine.
What is Susan Collins’ Net Worth?
According to CAknowledge and other credible sources, Susan Collins has a net worth of Forty-five million US dollars ($45m).
Who is Susan Collins’ husband?
Collins is married to Thomas Daffron, a lobbyist who worked as a chief operating officer at Jefferson Consulting Group in Washington, D.C. from 2006 to 2016; he consulted on Collins’s 1996, 2002, and 2008 Senate campaigns.
They were married on August 11, 2012, at the Gray Memorial United Methodist Church in Caribou, Maine.
Does Susan Collins have children?
According to a story on Central Maine.com, Collins first met Tom Daffron when he hired her as an intern for former Senator Bill Cohen. Their working relationship turned into a friendship relationship and later married.
Collins has never had children even after meeting Tom and marrying him in her fifty-ninth year.
How old is Susan Collins?
Susan Collins is 69 years now and will be 70 years in a couple of months ahead.
Who are Susan Collins’ parents?
Susan Collins is born to Patricia M. Collins who was an American civic leader and politician who served as the mayor of Caribou, Maine from 1981 to 1982 and
Donald Frederick Collins, her father was an American politician from Maine.
Mr. Collins, a Republican from Caribou, Aroostook County, served 5 terms in the Maine Legislature between 1970 and 1992.
He also served as mayor of Caribou. In 1970, Mr. Collins was elected to the Maine House of Representatives and served a single term.
What are Susan Collins’ social media handles?
Susan Collins is on the social media platforms; Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook as @sensusancollins @senatorcollins and U.S. Senator Susan Collins respectively.
