Chrissy Houlahan is an American politician, engineer, and former United States Air Force officer know all about her in this article as like her Family, Net Worth, Parents, Husband, Children, Education and Salary
| Bio | |
|---|---|
| Name | Christina Marie Houlahan |
| Birthdate ( Age) | 5 June 1967 |
| Place of Birth | NAVAIR, Patuxent River, Maryland, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Spouse/Partner | Bart Houlahan |
| Children | Two Daughters, Molly (28) and Carly (26) |
| Parents | Andrew C.A. Jampoler |
| Education | Stanford University |
| Profession | United States Representative |
| Net Worth | $4 Million |
| Last Update | 2022 |
Christina Marie “Chrissy” Houlahan is an American politician, engineer, and former United States Air Force officer. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania’s 6th congressional district.
The district includes almost all of Chester County, a suburban county west of Philadelphia, as well as the southern portion of Berks County including the city of Reading. She was first elected in 2018, defeating Republican Greg McCauley in the midterms.
Chrissy Houlahan Family and Parents
Houlahan spent her childhood on various U.S. naval bases across the country, including on Oahu. Her father, Andrew C.A. Jampoler, a naval aviator, was born in Poland, to a Jewish family, and left the country at age four to escape the Holocaust,He became a historian and author.
Houlahan, citing her idols as Indiana Jones and Sally Ride,earned her bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Stanford University in 1989, on an AFROTC scholarship.She then earned a master’s degree in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994.
Chrissy Houlahan Husband and Children
Chrissy Houlahan Married with Bart whom.She met him at Stanford and later married in 1991. The couple has two daughters named Molly (28) and Carly (26). They all are living in a house in Devon, Pennsylvania.
Chrissy Houlahan Net Worth
Chrissy Houlahan is an American politician, engineer, and former United States Air Force officer has an estimated Net Worth around $4 Million in 2022.
Professional Career
After graduating from Stanford University, Houlahan spent three years on United States Air Force active duty at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts. There, she served as a project manager working on air and space defense technologies. She left active duty in 1991 for the Air Force Reserve, separating from the service in 2004 as a captain.
Houlahan expected to face two-term Republican incumbent Ryan Costello. However, Costello pulled out of the race after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania threw out Pennsylvania’s congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan Republican gerrymander. While Costello was the only incumbent to retain his previous district number, it was made significantly more compact and bluer than its predecessor.
Houlahan took the Democratic nomination unopposed and faced first-time candidate Greg McCauley in the general election.On November 6, 2018, Houlahan easily defeated McCauley, garnering 58.8% of the vote over McCauley’s 41.1%.
Houlahan was one of seven Pennsylvania women running for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018, and one of four Democratic women to win, along with Mary Gay Scanlon, Madeleine Dean and Susan Wild. She also joined two other female veterans in the House freshman class, former naval officers Elaine Luria and Mikie Sherrill.
Upon taking office in January 2019, Houlahan became the first Democrat to represent a Chester County-based district in 166 years. The county had historically been very Republican, but has trended much more Democratic in recent years.
Houlahan supports the government negotiating drug prices with the pharmaceutical companies and a public option, but opposes a single payer healthcare system.She supports same-sex marriage, the Equality Act, and opposes President Trump’s memorandum banning transgender individuals from the military.In January 2019, she said she opposed withdrawing US troops from Syria.
