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Jacqueline A. Sharp is an American politician who has served as the Deputy House Minority Whip since 2013, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 5th congressional district since at least 2005. She previously served as House Majority Whip. She was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 presidential primaries, but she withdrew and endorsed Heather Dunbar.

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Jackie is a fourth-term Congresswoman from California's 5th congressional district. She is also a war veteran, who caused the deaths of many innocent civilians during her service. When Frank Underwood resigned as House Majority Whip to accept the Vice Presidency, he offered Sharp his services to help her succeed him. She secured the position.

When then Second Lady Claire Underwood drafted the Countering Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces Act of 2014 (CSAAFA) , she agreed to endorse the bill but then shows reluctance do it out of her personal disbelief in civilian oversight over military activities and concern over the problems it could raise before the midterms. Claire later offered to withdraw the bill and work with Sharp to introduce a passable bill, in exchange for her to whip votes in favor of President Garrett Walker's impeachment.

After a Republican victory in the 2014 Midterms, Sharp lost her place as House Majority Whip, and become the Assistant House Minority Whip.  Along with Bob Birch and Terry Womack, she openly refuses to endorse Frank Underwood during his re-election bid in 2016 and criticized his use of FEMA money to fund America Works.

Underwood told Sharp to announce her campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination, then drop out of the race and endorse him, in exchange he would nominate her as Vice President of the United States to replace the unpopular Donald Blythe.

Concerned she will receive little support in her campaign as, unlike Heather Dunbar, she doesn't have a family, Jackie marries Alan Cooke and becomes stepmother to his two children. Before the Iowa Caucus debate, Underwood encourages her to criticise Dunbar for sending her children to a private boarding school, which contrasts to her public stance on education. Jackie does this, but Underwood unexpectedly begins criticising her, as her husbands children also attend private school. Although Underwood claims he did so to dispel potential rumours of them working together, Jackie drops out, endorses Dunbar and later begins to help her campaign. Later, she resumes her relationship with Remy Danton while cheating on her husband.

After President Underwood's attempted assassination, Sharp is forced by Claire to back the deal designed by Raymond Tusk to provide Russia with an economic bailout in partnership with China, by threatening her about her relationship with Danton.

During the Democratic National Convention 2016 at Atlanta, when Secretary of State Catherine Durant emerges as a candidate for the Presidential nomination after receiving votes from Louisiana, Jackie helps her out by calling members of the California delegation and telling them that Underwood took her for granted as well as bullied and intimidated her.

When Tom Hammerschmidt contacts her about allegations of corruption against Underwood, she decides to go on record and convinces Danton to do the same. As Republican Presidential nominee William Conway's Super PAC targets every Californian democrat in a tight race (including Jackie), she realizes she has a narrow shot at winning and even if she does win, she must function in a Republican controlled Congress with a Republican President or do Underwood's bidding for four years. This leads her to tell Alan about her affair and they decide to divorce when everything quiets down.

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