Kate Whitman

Kate Russell Whitman (c. 1977-) is an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey, who placed second in the Republican primary for a Congressional seat representing on June 3, 2008. Whitman is the daughter of Christine Todd Whitman, former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and former Governor of New Jersey. Whitman lives in Peapack-Gladstone in Somerset County, the county once served by her mother as a Freeholder. She has never held elective office.

In a field of seven candidates in the 2008 Republican primary for the 7th district seat, Whitman placed second to state Senator Leonard Lance. The winner of the November election will succeed retiring Republican Congressman Mike Ferguson.

Whitman is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where she majored in political science and played on the varsity ice hockey team. In 2001, she worked for the United States Department of Labor, in the press office of the Employment and Training Administration.

She served as press secretary for Craig Benson’s 2002 gubernatorial campaign, and later, communications director for the New Hampshire Republican State Committee.

She was director of communications for U.S. Representative Christopher Cox, when he was chairman of the House Policy Committee. Whitman was responsible for coordinating Cox's national, state and local media activities.

Whitman was married on November 15 2003 to Craig Annis, a University of New Hampshire graduate and political lobbyist.

She ran her own consulting firm for two years, and then withdrew from the business world to give birth to twin boys in 2005. In 2007, she was named executive director of the Republican Leadership Council.

Whitman made news in 1998 at the age of 21 when she was cited by police in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for littering. While walking with friends on a street, Whitman was told by a police officer to dispose of a beer can she was holding. The police officer returned later to find Whitman still holding the can. She tossed it on the ground and was issued a summons.

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