Blanche Lincoln is a former United States Senator whose career was marked by firsts and by a desire for bipartisanship. She was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Arkansas since 1932, the youngest woman elected to the Senate, and was mentioned as a possible running mate for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in the 2004 election.
In her legislative career, she paid special attention to issues involving working families, veterans, farmers, and rural concerns and served as the Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
Blanche Lincoln is the Founder and Principal of Lincoln Policy Group (since 2013), Director at Hope Enterprise Corporation and Trustee at The Center for the Study of the Presidency, and Congress.