Sarah Palin

Governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009

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Born 1964 · age 62United States

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Updated 2026-06-14

John McCain's surprise 2008 running mate — Alaska's youngest governor, first female Republican VP nominee, and the pick that turned a campaign into a culture-war flashpoint. She resigned mid-term a year later under ethics inquiries and reinvented as a Tea Party star and TV personality.

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Palin climbed from Wasilla city council in 1992 to mayor in 1996, then chaired Alaska's Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in 2003. At 42, she became the state's first female governor in 2006. Two years later McCain tapped her for VP — the first woman on a Republican national ticket — and the media storm over her experience and public image defined the race they'd lose to Obama-Biden. Legal fees from ethics fights drove her July 2009 resignation. She pivoted to the Tea Party movement, stumped for candidates including Trump in 2016, hosted two TV shows, provided Fox News commentary through 201…

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Sarah Palin

said3 Nov 2008

We must win, because Ohio, the far-left wing of the Democrat Party, not mainstream Democrat ideology, the values, the planks in the platform of the Democrat Party.

— Campaign speech in Lakewood, Ohio, November 3, 2008

Sarah Palin

saidJun 2008

My son Track...he's gonna be deployed in September to Iraq. Pray... for this country, that our leaders... are sending U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God.

— Address to a class of ministry students at the Wasilla Assembly of God church in June 2008; Web Site With Speeches and Sermons From Palin's

Sarah Palin

saidMar 2008

(Hillary Clinton) does herself a disservice to even mention it, really.

— When asked about sexism directed at Clinton, March 2008 text video

Sarah Palin

said24 Feb 2008

Oh, you are so spot on. I absolutely agree with you.

— In response to an assertion by a caller on C-SPAN's show Washington Journal on February 24, 2008, that drilling in the Arctic National

Sarah Palin

said2008

[The Alaska Constitution is] my bible in governing. I try to keep it so simple by reading the thing and believing in it and living it. It's providential.

— Interview by Dimitri Vassilaros for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, conducted , published

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