Candy Crowley
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| Candy Crowley | |
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Crowley in Houston, Texas, February 19, 2008 |
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| Born | Candy Alt Crowley December 26, 1948 Michigan |
| Education | Randolph-Macon Woman's College |
| Occupation | Broadcast journalist |
| Title | Chief Political Correspondent and Anchor |
| Notable credit(s) | Inside Politics Anchor of State of the Union |
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Candy Alt Crowley (born December 26, 1948) is a CNN anchor and Chief Political Correspondent, specializing in U.S. presidential, gubernatorial, and Senate elections. She is based in CNN's Washington bureau, and hosted Inside Politics in place of Judy Woodruff before the show was replaced with The Situation Room. Crowley has covered elections for over two decades. On January 31, 2010, it was announced that Crowley would replace John King as the anchor of the Sunday-morning political talk show State of the Union, which she began hosting in February.[1]
Crowley was born in Michigan. She attended Principia College in Illinois and received her undergraduate degree from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, majoring in English. Crowley started her career with radio station WASH-FM in Washington, D.C. as a newsroom assistant. She moved from NBC to CNN in 1987. Crowley is known to be off-camera friends with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.[citation needed] Crowley was featured twice on the 10th anniversary edition of the popular game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? in 2009 as the expert for the "Ask the Expert" lifeline.
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