Politician/Christine Bingham

Christine Euline Bingham (born June 11, 1941) is an American politician who served as the two-time chairwoman of the New York Republican Party. She is the husband of current New York senator Jeremy Hudson, and the mother of other members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the New York State Assembly.

Early Life
Christine was born in Wellsville, Allegheny County. She graduated from the University of New York in 1969 with a degree in political science. She met Jeremy Hunter while working in a local grocer's market, and they later married in 1963.

Early Political Career
Bingham ran for the city council district in Wellsville twice: 1959 and 1963, losing the Republican primary. She later made failed runs for the 93rd Assembly District and the 38th Senate district, both ending in failure. While she was working as a cashier in Wellsville, she chaired the county Republican Party committee from 1967 until 1968 when she and her husband, Jeremy Hunter, moved to Yonkers in Westchester County.

New York Republican Party Chairmanship
In 1970, after living in Yonkers, Republicans tapped Bingham to chair the New York Republican Party. She had previously worked as chair for the state house campaign committee for the 1968 State Assembly election, which had flipped the chamber to Republican control for the first time since 1957. During her 12 year tenure, Bingham shifted candidates towards socially moderate and fiscally liberal views, in order to compete with the state's liberal leaning. She left the office in 1982 in order to help her husband campaign for the open gubernatorial seat, which he lost to then-Senator Lacy Cruz. Christine then returned to the chair from 1984-86 before working on her husband's run in the 1986 Senate election.