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Jean Schmidt is an American politician. She is a U.S. Representative–elect of the Republican Party from the U.S. state of Ohio who is scheduled to be sworn in at 6:30 p.m. EDT on September 6, 2005, after winning a special election on August 2 in the state's second district to replace Rob Portman. Schmidt is the second Ohio woman of her party to be elected to Congress without succeeding her husband and the first woman to represent southwestern Ohio in Congress. Schmidt is a lifelong resident of Clermont County and won an 11-candidate primary on June 14, 2005. Schmidt faced Democratic nominee Paul Hackett, an attorney and Marine who served in the Iraq War in the special election, in which she won by 3.5 percent amid national attention. The narrowness of her victory in a district accustomed to Republican landslides led many Democrats to claim a victory for their party and forecast trouble for the Republicans in the 2006 House election.

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