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Palin was born Sarah Louise Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho, Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant. Palin attended Wasilla High School in Wasilla, Alaska, where she was the point guard and captain of the school's basketball team. She helped the team win the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds of the game, despite having an ankle stress fracture. She earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play. In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant, then finished third ("second runner-up") in the Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship and the "Miss Congeniality" award. Palin graduated from the University of Idaho with a Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, graduating in 1987. On August 29, 1988, when she was 24 years old, Sara Palin eloped with Todd Palin, who had been her high-school boyfriend. Todd Palin works for BP as an oil-field production operator and owns a commercial fishing business. The couple have five children: sons Track and Trig and daughters Bristol, Willow, and Piper. Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska city council from 1992 to 1996, then won two terms as mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired and served as Ethics Supervisor of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004. Elected governor of Alaska in November 2006, Palin became the first woman and the youngest person to hold the office. She defeated incumbent governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary and former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election. On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain announced that he had chosen Palin as his running mate. She was nominated at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Palin is the first woman to run on the Republican presidential ticket.

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Uploaded: September 10th, 2008 @ 5:57 pm
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