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This is my "work in progress" page for translations and such. Currently I'm working on translating the English article on Jane Swift to the French wikipedia, which has no entry on her. (fr:Jane Swift)

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Jane Maria Swift (née le 24 février 1965) est une femme politique américaine de l'état de Massachusetts. Une membre du Parti républicain, elle était le gouverneur intérimaire de 2001 à 2003. Swift est la première femme qui avait servi comme gouverneur de Massachusetts.

Elle est une membre d'une famille irelandaise-italienne politique de Berkshire County, Massachusetts du cité de North Adams, elle a appris la politique de son père, qui a pris part activement en le Parti républicain en le gouvernement de ville, du comté et d'état. Elle a obtenu son diplôme de Trinity College en Hartford, Connecticut en 1987.

Massachusetts politics
She served as a state senator, an executive with the Massachusetts Port Authority, and as the commonwealth's consumer affairs secretary before being elected lieutenant governor.

Swift was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1998 and became Acting Governor in 2001 when Governor Argeo Paul Cellucci became the United States Ambassador to Canada.

She became the first governor of any state to give birth while in office (twin girls, born May 15, 2001). She continued to exercise executive authority during her maternity leave, including chairing a meeting of the Massachusetts Governor's Council by teleconference from her hospital bed.

By the end of her term, Swift was extremely unpopular with voters in the state (at one point having the dubious honor of a single-digit approval rating). This unpopularity was due in part to an abuse of her gubernatorial privileges, including her alleged use of a State Police helicopter to return from Boston to her home in North Adams and demands that State House aides pick up her children at day care.

Massachusetts does not have a Governor's Mansion. However, during the Swift Administration, it was given serious consideration. For security reasons after 9/11, Swift was driven daily to the state capital, spending up to six hours commuting as profiled on CBS's 60 Minutes. She rode in a van which had been converted into a mobile office. She withdrew from the 2002 gubernatorial primary to make way for Mitt Romney, who went on to win the Republican nomination and the election.

In 2001, her poll numbers sinking during a political campaign, she overturned a unanimous ruling by the Board of Appeals for the commutation of the sentence of Gerald Amirault, who was serving an 18 year sentence for molesting children at a pre-school based on suspicious evidence (recovered memories) from young children. As a result, Mr. Amirault spent three more years in prison, 18 years in all.

Since leaving office, Swift has moved back to Western Massachusetts, but continued to commute to the Boston area for a fellowship at Harvard University in the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics. Among her co-fellows were former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen and Martin Mackin of Ireland.

Her official portrait was unveiled in the Massachusetts State House in 2005.

Electoral history

 * 1998 Race for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
 * Paul Cellucci/Jane Swift (R, incumbents), 51%
 * Scott Harshbarger/Warren Tolman (D), 47%
 * 1996 Race for United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts District 1
 * John Olver (D, incumbent), 53%
 * Jane Swift (R), 47%