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Elise Stefanik
Elise Marie Stefanik (/stəˈfɑːnɪk/ stə-FAH-nik; born July 2, 1984) is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for New York's 21st congressional district since 2015. From 2021 to 2025, she served as chair of the House Republican Conference.
Stefanik was elected as a moderate Republican but aligned herself with Donald Trump during his first term as president. Stefanik strongly opposed the first impeachment of Trump in 2019 and objected to Pennsylvania's electoral votes in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Stefanik was elected chair of the House Republican Conference in May 2021 after Liz Cheney was removed from the position for her vocal opposition to Trump.
In 2023, Stefanik gained national attention for her aggressive questioning of university presidents during a widely televised U.S. congressional hearing on antisemitism, which contributed to the resignation of Liz Magill as the president of the University of Pennsylvania. Stefanik was awarded the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson Defender of Israel Award by the Zionist Organization of America. She has supported the view that Israel has a "biblical right" to the occupied West Bank.
In January 2025, President Trump nominated Stefanik to serve as the United States ambassador to the United Nations. Trump withdrew the nomination in March over concerns that her departure from the House would affect the thin House Republican majority. In November 2025, Stefanik announced her candidacy in the 2026 New York gubernatorial election, but ended her campaign the following month and announced she would not run for re-election to Congress.
Stefanik was born in Albany, New York, on July 2, 1984, to Melanie and Kenneth Stefanik. Stefanik states that her father is ethnically Czech and her mother is of Italian ancestry; genealogical records show that her father's Roman Catholic Slovak family came from western Galicia (at the time part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria), mainly from the town of Frysztak (Yiddish: Fristik; German: Freistadt) located near Jasło and Strzyżów. Her parents own a wholesale plywood distributor based in Guilderland Center, New York.
At the age of 14, Stefanik became involved in Republican politics and volunteered for the New York Republican State Committee. According to Stefanik, she first considered a career in public service and policy in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
In 2002, Stefanik graduated from the Albany Academy for Girls. She attended Harvard College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2006. In 2004, she was the vice president of the Student Advisory Committee at the Harvard Institute of Politics.
According to Rep. Henry Cuellar, as of August 2023, Stefanik, Jake LaTurner and he were enrolled in the master's in defense and strategic studies program at the Naval War College.
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Elise Stefanik
Elise Marie Stefanik (/stəˈfɑːnɪk/ stə-FAH-nik; born July 2, 1984) is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for New York's 21st congressional district since 2015. From 2021 to 2025, she served as chair of the House Republican Conference.
Stefanik was elected as a moderate Republican but aligned herself with Donald Trump during his first term as president. Stefanik strongly opposed the first impeachment of Trump in 2019 and objected to Pennsylvania's electoral votes in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Stefanik was elected chair of the House Republican Conference in May 2021 after Liz Cheney was removed from the position for her vocal opposition to Trump.
In 2023, Stefanik gained national attention for her aggressive questioning of university presidents during a widely televised U.S. congressional hearing on antisemitism, which contributed to the resignation of Liz Magill as the president of the University of Pennsylvania. Stefanik was awarded the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson Defender of Israel Award by the Zionist Organization of America. She has supported the view that Israel has a "biblical right" to the occupied West Bank.
In January 2025, President Trump nominated Stefanik to serve as the United States ambassador to the United Nations. Trump withdrew the nomination in March over concerns that her departure from the House would affect the thin House Republican majority. In November 2025, Stefanik announced her candidacy in the 2026 New York gubernatorial election, but ended her campaign the following month and announced she would not run for re-election to Congress.
Stefanik was born in Albany, New York, on July 2, 1984, to Melanie and Kenneth Stefanik. Stefanik states that her father is ethnically Czech and her mother is of Italian ancestry; genealogical records show that her father's Roman Catholic Slovak family came from western Galicia (at the time part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria), mainly from the town of Frysztak (Yiddish: Fristik; German: Freistadt) located near Jasło and Strzyżów. Her parents own a wholesale plywood distributor based in Guilderland Center, New York.
At the age of 14, Stefanik became involved in Republican politics and volunteered for the New York Republican State Committee. According to Stefanik, she first considered a career in public service and policy in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
In 2002, Stefanik graduated from the Albany Academy for Girls. She attended Harvard College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2006. In 2004, she was the vice president of the Student Advisory Committee at the Harvard Institute of Politics.
According to Rep. Henry Cuellar, as of August 2023, Stefanik, Jake LaTurner and he were enrolled in the master's in defense and strategic studies program at the Naval War College.