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'''Elise Marie Stefanik''' ({{IPAc-en|s|t|ə|ˈ|f|ɑː|n|ᵻ|k}}; born July 2, 1984) is an American politician serving as the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for {{Ushr|NY|21}} since 2015. The district covers most of the [[North Country, New York|North Country]], as well as most of the [[Adirondack Mountains|Adirondacks]]. It also includes some of the outer suburbs of [[Utica, New York|Utica]] and the [[Capital District, New York|Capital District]].
Upon her first House election in 2014, Stefanik, then aged 30, became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress at the time. A strong supporter of [[Donald Trump]], she opposed his 2019 [[Impeachment of Donald Trump|impeachment]] in the [[Trump–Ukraine scandal|Trump-Ukraine scandal]].
Upon her first House election in 2014, Stefanik, then aged 30, became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress at the time. A strong supporter of [[Donald Trump]], she opposed his 2019 [[Impeachment of Donald Trump|impeachment]] in the [[Trump–Ukraine scandal|Trump-Ukraine scandal]]. She supported a lawsuit that [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|attempted to overturn]] Trump's electoral defeat in the 2020 election,<ref>{{cite news |title=Stefanik endorses suit seeking to overturn election |url=https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Stefanik-signs-onto-suit-seeking-to-overturn-15792453.php |access-date=12 January 2021}}</ref> and just hours after the [[2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol|2021 storming of the United States Capitol]], she voted to object to Pennsylvania's electoral college votes,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Yourish |first1=Karen |last2=Buchanan | first2=Larry |last3=Lu |first3=Denise ||date=2021-01-07 |title=The 147 Republicans Who Voted to Overturn Election Results |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html |work=New York Times |location=New York |access-date=2021-01-08}}</ref> in order to prevent the certification of Joe Biden's victory.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.news10.com/news/politics/stefanik-to-join-gop-house-coalition-to-object-to-electoral-college-results/|title=Stefanik to join GOP House coalition to object to Electoral College results|access-date=January 10, 2021|first=Jolie|last=Sherman|date=January 5, 2021}}</ref>
== Early life and career ==
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