“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”

American politician

Michele Bachmann is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Minnesota’s 6th congressional district from 2007 to 2015. A Republican, she also ran for president of the United States in the 2012 election. She represented Minnesota in Congress for four terms before leaving office in 2015. Her national campaign ended after the Iowa caucuses.