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Cynthia McKinney

Cynthia McKinney
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Georgia
In office
January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2007
Preceded byDenise Majette
Succeeded byHank Johnson
Constituency4th district
In office
January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2003
Preceded byConstituency reestablished
Succeeded byDenise Majette
Constituency11th district (1993–1997)
4th district (1997–2003)
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives
from the 40th district
In office
January 9, 1989 – January 3, 1993
Preceded byBarbara H. Couch
Succeeded bySteven C. Clark
Personal details
Born
Cynthia Ann McKinney

(1955-03-17) March 17, 1955 (age 69)
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Political partyIndependent (2020–present)
Other political
affiliations		Democratic (1973–2007)
Green (2007–2020)
SpouseCoy Grandison (divorced)
Children1
Parent
EducationUniversity of Southern California (BA)
Tufts University (MA)
Antioch University (PhD)

Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is a former American politician.[1] As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first African American woman elected to represent Georgia in the House.[2] She left the Democratic Party and ran in 2008 as the presidential nominee of the Green Party. She ran for vice president in 2020 after the Green Party of Alaska formally nominated her and draft-nominated Jesse Ventura for president.[3][4][5][6]

McKinney served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1988 to 1992. In the 1992 election, McKinney was elected in Georgia's newly re-created 11th district,[7] and was re-elected in 1994. When her district was redrawn and renumbered due to the Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Miller v. Johnson,[2][8][9] McKinney was elected from the new 4th district in the 1996 election. She was re-elected twice more without substantive opposition, but was defeated by Denise Majette in the 2002 Democratic primary.[10]

After her 2002 loss, McKinney became a vocal supporter of conspiracy theories about the September 11 terrorist attacks, blaming her loss and the 9/11 attacks on "Zionists."[11] McKinney was re-elected to the House in November 2004, following her successor's run for Senate. In Congress, she unsuccessfully tried to unseal FBI records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the murder of Tupac Shakur. She continued to criticize the Bush administration over the 9/11 attacks. She supported anti-war legislation and introduced articles of impeachment against President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

McKinney sought re-election in 2006, but was defeated by Hank Johnson in the Democratic primary.[12] In a March 29, 2006, Capitol Hill police incident, she struck a Capitol Hill Police officer for stopping her to ask for identification. McKinney left the Democratic Party in September 2007.[13] She eventually sought and won the Green Party nomination in the 2008 presidential election,[14][15] receiving 161,797 votes (0.12%) nationwide in the general election.[16]

  1. ^ Galloway, Jim; Bluestein, Greg; Mitchell, Tia; Murphy, Patricia. "The Jolt: Before QAnon, there was Cynthia McKinney". Political Insider (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Lehrer, Jim (October 31, 1996). "Georgia on Her Mind". PBS. Archived from the original on July 24, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
  3. ^ "Cynthia McKinney". Ballotpedia. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  4. ^ "Green Party Of Alaska Rejects National Candidate, Nominates Jesse Ventura". The Anchorage Press (Press release). Green Party of Alaska Press. September 1, 2020. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  5. ^ Downing, Suzanne (September 1, 2020). "Green Party of Alaska nominates Jesse Ventura for president". Must Read Alaska. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  6. ^ "Alaska Green Party Nominates Jesse Ventura for President". Ballot Access News. September 2020. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  7. ^ Constructed after the Congressional reapportionment associated with the 1990 United States Census.
  8. ^ The Court found that the 11th District was an unconstitutional gerrymander because the boundaries had been drawn based on the racial composition of the constituents. See also: Miller v. Johnson
  9. ^ See map of old district "GeorgiaInfo – Carl Vinson Institute of Government". Archived from the original on May 13, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
  10. ^ Welch, William (August 21, 2002). "Crossover vote helped tilt Ga. races". USA Today. Retrieved March 5, 2008. Crossover voting gave a significant lift to Democrat Denise Majette in unseating controversial Rep. Cynthia McKinney
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference jewishjournal was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ "Democrat U.S. House District 4". WSBTV Action News 2 Atlanta. August 8, 2006. Archived from the original on August 13, 2006. Retrieved August 8, 2006.
  13. ^ All Things Cynthia McKinney (Cynthia McKinney's personal website) submitted by admin September 25, 2007. "Cynthia Severs Ties with Democrats". {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Cynthia McKinney Announces Run for President". YouTube. December 16, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
  15. ^ "McKinney speaks truth to power in Wisconsin" (Press release). Green Party. December 11, 2007. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
  16. ^ Public Disclosure Division, Office of Communications, Federal Election Commission (January 22, 2009). "2008 Official Presidential General Election Results, General Election Date:11/04/08" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. Retrieved January 4, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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