Lori Ann Trahan is an American businesswoman and politician serving as the US representative for since 2019.
18 Facts About Lori Trahan
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Lori Trahan was born on October 27,1973, and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Lori Trahan attended Lowell High School, into whose Sports Hall of Fame she was later inducted.
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Lori Trahan's father was from Porto, and his mother was born in Brazil to Portuguese parents and moved to the Azores to live with relatives as a child after her mother's death.
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Lori Trahan's mother is of partial Portuguese ancestry.
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At Lowell High, Lori Trahan earned an athletic scholarship in volleyball to Georgetown University.
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Lori Trahan graduated from Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service with a bachelor's degree in comparative and regional studies in international relations.
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Lori Trahan became the CEO of the Concire Leadership Institute, a small, woman-owned consulting firm.
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In October 2017, Lori Trahan announced her candidacy for the 2018 election to succeed retiring US Representative Niki Tsongas.
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In September 2018, Lori Trahan won the Democratic primary election, the real contest in this heavily Democratic district, narrowly defeating Daniel Koh, the former chief of staff to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, in a field of 10 candidates.
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Lori Trahan told the Globe she used $371,000 in personal funds, but federal financial disclosures she filed in the late summer of 2018 appeared to show that she did not have the funds to cover such a loan.
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In December 2019, after the revelation that Trump had spoken to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about investigating his rival Joe Biden, Lori Trahan told The Salem News that she supported impeaching the president, calling Trump's abuses in office a "clear and present danger" that required action.
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On December 19,2019, Lori Trahan voted for both articles of impeachment against Trump.
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On March 28,2019, Lori Trahan voted to protect transgender troops from the Trump Administration's ban on transgender people serving in the military.
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On February 7,2019, Lori Trahan became an original cosponsor of the Green New Deal.
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In October 2022, Lori Trahan introduced the Stop Online Suicide Assistance Forums Act, a bill that would make it a crime to use "the mail or interstate communication to intentionally assist another individual in taking that individual's own life".
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In January 2023, Lori Trahan was one of 13 cosponsors of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States extending the right to vote to citizens sixteen years of age or older.
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Lori Trahan is 6 feet tall, the same height as her former fellow House Democrat Cindy Axne.