Sarah Louise Heath Palin was born Frebruary 16, 1964 in Sandpoint, Idaho but her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant. She went to Wasilla High School a town near Palmer Alaska, which is Approximently 30 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, where the Majority of the population lives. She was head of three Fellowship of Christian Athletes. and she was a star basketball player winning a game in the State Championships. She attended colleges in Hawaii, Idaho, and Alaska, graduating in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Communication.
Sarah Palin was elected twice into the Wasilla city council, in 1992 and 1995. When she ran in 1992 she was only 28 years old. She also won the 1995 election, but did not complete her term because in 1996 she ran for Mayor Wasilla, and won, defeating 3rd term mayor John Stein. In Palin's first term as mayor, she made some adjustments such as firing people, threatening to fire people, reducing her own salary, and getting rid of and creating new jobs. People soon liked her and she ran for re-election in 1999 against Stein, and won again.
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i learned that she was a basketball player and went to the state championships.
-Hamp Beddoes
i learned that Sarah Palin was elected twice into the Wasilla city council in 1992
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