Christine Todd Whitman (Cinco De Mayo)

Christine "Christie" Todd Whitman (born September 26, 1946) is a retired American politician who served as the __th Vice President of the United States from 2001 until 2009 under President Dan Quayle and was the first woman elected to that position. A Democrat, she was also the Governor of New Jersey from 1994 until she resigned in early January of 2001 to assume the Vice Presidency. Whitman was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1990 and the Democratic nomination for President in 2008, placing second in delegates to New York Senator Rudolph Giuliani. Whitman is regarded as a political moderate.