<P> The role garnered Louis - Dreyfus several milestone accolades: her fourteenth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for a role in the regular cast of a comedy series surpassed Lucille Ball as the most ever . Her Primetime Emmy Award for her third different regular cast role also was a record - setting achievement for a comedy actress . Her five consecutive Primetime Emmy Lead Actress wins break a record and her six overall Primetime Emmy Lead Actress wins also break a record . </P> <P> Meyer was born Selina Catherine Eaton to mother Catherine Calvert Eaton and Gordon Dunn Eaton . In her childhood, she loved her father (whom she affectionately called Daddy), but resented her narcissistic mother . It is later revealed that Selina's father was an adulterer who died from a heart attack while having sex with his secretary, and that her mother only stayed with him to provide for her . Selina attended Smith College, and Yale Law School . As a young woman, she married Andrew Meyer, a shady real estate developer, with whom she has a daughter, Catherine . She eventually divorces Andrew for repeatedly cheating on her, and shows little (if any) maternal instinct towards her daughter . </P> <P> The show's original opening sequence details some of her career . She was a United States Senator from Maryland (where she was born and raised). She announced her candidacy for the 2012 presidential election . Media outlets initially praised her and had high hopes for her becoming the President, with headlines such as "Magic Meyer" and "Is this Meyer's Moment?". Despite strong initial victories, she ultimately is defeated by primary challenger Stuart Hughes on Super Tuesday, and suspends her campaign . He then selects her as his running mate, and is elected to the presidency . </P> <P> As the Vice President, Meyer finds herself increasingly ignored by the President, and often demoted to trivial matters . When the sitting President decides that he will not seek a second term, his Chief of Staff Ben Cafferty encourages Meyer to run, which she ultimately does . She faces a primary challenge from war veteran and Governor of Minnesota Danny Chung, Secretary of Defense George Maddox, freshman Congressman Owen Pierce, and baseball coach Joe Thornhill . During the course of the primary season, President Hughes resigns abruptly to care for his ailing wife, and Meyer ascends to the presidency . Headlines question whether Meyer will be "the 8 - month president", confirming that Hughes' term was near over, and Meyer is constitutionally eligible to serve two full terms as President . Though she chooses Senator Andrew Doyle to become her Vice President, he declines to serve as her running mate for a full term as Vice President . She offers the running mate position to both Chung and Maddox, but both decline, and she ultimately chooses popular Senator Tom James when she secures the party nomination . </P>

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