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    Elaine Chao. Elaine Lan Chao (born March 26, 1953) is an American businesswoman and former government official who served as United States secretary of labor in the administration of George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 and as United States Secretary of Transportation in the administration of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021.

  2. Feb 28, 2024 · Mitch McConnell and Elaine L. Chao before their marriage in the Chapel of the United States Capitol on February 6, 1993. Shayna Brennan/AP. While McConnell and Chao kept their actual wedding ...

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  3. Apr 10, 2024 · Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, 82 – the longest-serving Senate leader in US history – thanked his wife, Elaine Chao, 71, as he announced he would be stepping down as the Senate Republican ...

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    • Mitch McConnell, age 76, is the US Senate Majority Leader. He grew up in Alabama and Kentucky and became a senator for Kentucky in 1985.
    • Elaine Chao, 64, is the US Secretary of Transportation. She previously served as US Secretary of Labor from 2001 to 2009. Chao moved to the US from Taiwan at age eight and grew up in New York.
    • McConnell and Chao met through a mutual friend, Stuart Bloch, in Washington, DC in the early 1990s. Bloch and McConnell had met in the 1960s and Bloch was married to Julia Chang Bloch, who was a mentor of Chao's.
    • Bloch invited McConnell to a candlelit dinner with Chao. "I don't want to say that sparks flew," Bloch told The New York Times, "because that's not the way either of them is."
  4. Mar 9, 2023 · Mitch McConnell, 81, was hospitalized Wednesday night after falling at a DC hotel. His wife, Elaine Chao, served as Trump's transportation secretary.

  5. Aug 20, 2023 · Elaine Chao first met Senator Mitch McConnell in the early 1990s, and the couple wed in 1993. McConnell was previously married to Sherrill Redmon until their divorce in 1980. McConnell has served as a U.S. Senator of Kentucky since 1985, and the couple's paths crossed after they were introduced by a mutual friend.

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  7. Aug 27, 2020 · Though Chao was involved with the White House counsel to George H.W. Bush, C. Boyden Gray, she chose to pursue a relationship with McConnell. The two married in 1993, and their influence in Washington has only grown. However, power comes with trade-offs. In an interview with CNN, Chao said that she sometimes regrets not having children.

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