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Kelly Ayotte, a Republican former U.S. senator and New Hampshire attorney general, has served as governor of New Hampshire since 2025 and is seeking a second term in 2026.
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Kreiss-TomkinsWilsonWirthNew Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte, who is up for reelection in 2026, was first inaugurated as governor on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Concord, N.H.
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Kelly Ann Ayotte was born on June 27, 1968, in Nashua, New Hampshire, and attended Nashua High School. She received a B.A. in political science from Pennsylvania State University, then earned a J.D. in 1993 at Villanova University School of Law and edited its Environmental Law Journal. She clerked for one year for Justice Sherman D. Horton of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and from 1994 to 1998 was an associate at the Manchester law firm McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton.
Ayotte joined the New Hampshire attorney general's office as a prosecutor in 1998.
In 2003 she worked for three months as Governor Craig Benson's legal counsel, then rejoined the attorney general's office, this time as deputy attorney general, and in June 2004 Benson appointed her attorney general after Peter Heed resigned, making her the first woman to hold the post; Governor John Lynch reappointed her twice.
As attorney general she personally argued Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England before the U.S. Supreme Court.
She resigned in July 2009 to seek the Senate seat of the retiring Judd Gregg, won the September 2010 Republican primary over Ovide Lamontagne by a narrow margin and defeated Democratic congressman Paul Hodes with 60% of the vote.
She served in the Senate from 2011 to 2017, sitting on the Homeland Security and Armed Services committees, and lost her 2016 reelection race to Governor Maggie Hassan by 1,017 votes.
After President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, his administration chose her to lead the White House team for the confirmation. In 2024 she was elected the 83rd governor of New Hampshire, defeating Democrat Joyce Craig by 9.34 percentage points.
Ayotte is seeking a second two-year term as governor in 2026. The state primaries were scheduled for September 8, 2026, ahead of the November 3 general election. Along with Vermont, New Hampshire is one of two states carried by Kamala Harris in 2024 where a Republican-held governorship is on the 2026 ballot.
