# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephanie-herseth-sandlin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:56:45.634Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephanie-herseth-sandlin"
name: "Stephanie Herseth Sandlin"
slug: "stephanie-herseth-sandlin"
description: "Stephanie Marie Herseth Sandlin is an American attorney, university administrator, and politician from the Democratic Party. She represented South Dakota's at-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2004 until 2011. Sandlin was first elected to Congress in a July 2004 special election and won three full terms before losing to Republican Kristi Noem in 2010. She was the youngest female member of the House, and the first woman elected to the House from South Dakota. Before her 2007 marriage to Max Sandlin, she was known as Stephanie Herseth. She is a Democrat and a member of the Herseth family of South Dakota. She and Senator Tim Johnson are also the last Democrats to win a statewide or federal election in South Dakota."
tagline: "American politician in South Dakota (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SHS_Official_Headshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1970-12-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           13.679128
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump