McHose was born on May 24 , 1965 in Newton to Robert Littell ( January 9 , 1936 – November 14 , 2014 ) and Virginia Littell ( born December 8 , 1943 ) . At the time , her father was a Franklin borough councilman and later became an Assemblyman and State Senator while her mother was a business consultant and later chair of the New Jersey Republican State Committee . Her grandfather Alfred B. Littell represented Sussex County in both houses of the Legislature and served as Senate President in 1951 . McHose attended Simmons College in Boston and graduated with a B.S. from the University of Maryland , College Park in Government and Politics . Following her graduation , McHose was a legislative aide in father 's district office and later specializing in budget issues . During the George H. W. Bush administration , from 1988 until 1992 , McHose worked at the National Endowment for the Humanities under Chairwoman Lynne Cheney and the Department of the Treasury under Nicholas F. Brady . At the Republican National Convention in 2008 , McHose served as a national delegate from New Jersey
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2008 Republican National Convention
Alison Littell McHose