Question: Gail Buckner was a candidate for Secretary of State of Georgia in 2006, but lost to a woman who was the first Republican woman to be elected to the US Congress from Georgia, after defeating who?

Context articles: Enid Greene Mickelsen
Karen Handel
Sarah Palin
Kay Granger
Kay Ivey
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Marjorie Holt
Ann Bedsole
Christine Todd Whitman
Gail Buckner

Enid Greene Mickelsen, formerly Enid Greene Waldholtz (born June 5, 1958) is a politician from the state of Utah who served one term in the United States House of Representatives.
 She was the third woman and first Republican woman elected to congress from Utah.
 Since her retirement in 1997, no woman was elected to Congress from Utah until Mia Love in 2014.
Karen Christine Handel (née Walker; born April 18, 1962) is an American businesswoman, politician, and member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 6th congressional district.
 In 2017, she became the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress from Georgia after defeating Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff on June 20 in the 2017 special election to fill the vacancy in Georgia's 6th congressional district in the most expensive congressional race in American history.
Sarah Louise Palin ( ; née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator, and author who served as the ninth Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009.
 As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election alongside presidential nominee, Arizona Senator John McCain, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major political party and the first Republican woman selected as a vice presidential candidate.
 Her book "Going Rogue" has sold more than two million copies.
Norvell Kay Granger (née Mullendore; born January 18, 1943) is an American Republican politician from the U.S. state of Texas, representing its 12th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
 A former teacher and businesswoman, she is the first Republican woman to represent Texas in the U.S. House.
 After serving on the zoning commission of Fort Worth, Texas, in 1991 she was elected as the city's first woman mayor, serving two terms to 1995.
 In 2016, Granger made headlines by joining a long list of Republicans who opposed the GOP nominee for President, Donald Trump.
Kay Ellen Ivey (born October 15, 1944) is an American politician who is the 54th and current Governor of Alabama since April 2017.
 Ivey, a member of the Republican Party, served as the 38th Alabama State Treasurer from 2003 to 2011, and later became the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama; she was the first Republican woman elected in this state, serving from January 2011 until April 2017.
 She assumed office as governor on April 10, 2017 following the resignation of two-term governor Robert Bentley, who left office after pleading guilty to criminal charges involving campaign finance violations.
 Bentley was also facing impeachment following a sex scandal at the time of his resignation.
 Ivey is Alabama's second female governor, after Lurleen Wallace, who served from 1967 until 1968, and first female Republican governor.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (born Ileana Carmen Ros y Adato; July 15, 1952) is the most senior U.S. Representative from Florida, representing  's 27 congressional district .
 She served as Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2011–2013.
 In 1989, Ros-Lehtinen became the first Cuban American and Latina elected to Congress.
 She was also the first Republican woman elected to the House from Florida, and is currently the most senior Republican woman in the U.S. House.
 Ros-Lehtinen gave the first Republican response to the State of the Union address in Spanish in 2011, and gave the third in 2014.
Marjorie Sewell Holt (born September 17, 1920), a Republican, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented Maryland's 4th congressional district from January 3, 1973 to January 3, 1987.
 She was the first Republican woman elected to Congress from Maryland.
Ann Smith Bedsole (born January 7, 1930), is a businesswoman, philanthropist, and a Republican politician from Mobile, Alabama.
 She is the first Republican woman to have been elected to the Alabama House of Representatives, in which she served from 1979 to 1983, and the first female ever elected to the Alabama State Senate, in which her tenure extended from 1983 to 1995.
Christine "Christie" Todd Whitman (born September 26, 1946) is an American Republican politician and author who served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003.
 She was New Jersey's first and, to date, only female governor.
 She was the second woman and first Republican woman to defeat an incumbent governor in a general election in the United States.
 She was also the first Republican woman to be reelected governor.
Gail Buckner is a Democratic member of the Georgia State Senate, representing its 44th District since 2008.
 She was formerly a Georgia State Assembly representative of district 76, encompassing parts of Clayton County  from 1990 to 2006.
 Buckner represented district 76.
 Buckner was a candidate for Secretary of State of Georgia  in 2006, but lost to Republican Karen Handel.