Bachmann, Michele, 1956-

Michele Marie Bachmann (née Amble; born April 6, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, she was the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 2007 until 2015 and a candidate for President of the United States in the 2012 election.

Born in Waterloo, Iowa, her family moved from Iowa to Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, when she was 13 years old. She graduated from Anoka High School in 1974 before receiving a BA in political science and English from Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, in 1978, the year she married Marcus Bachmann, a clinical therapist. BNachmann went on to study law at the Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, receiving a JD in 1986. Two years later, she completed a master’s of law in taxation at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She worked for four years as a lawyer for the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Chief Counsel, in St. Paul, Minnesota, but left the position after the birth of her second child in 1992.

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