The fiscally conservative Democrat from Columbia County is relatively unknown outside her congressional district in eastern New York.
So who is Kirsten Gillibrand?
She's the daughter of an Albany lobbyist, a graduate of Dartmouth College and UCLA's law school and a former Manhattan lawyer.
The mother of two young children, Gillibrand worked for Andrew Cuomo when he was the federal housing secretary during Bill Clinton's administration.
In 2006, she defeated incumbent Republican John Sweeney in a GOP-dominated district that stretches 200 miles from the mid Hudson Valley to the Adirondacks.
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