Chris Van Hollen

CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, Democrat, of Kensington, MD; born in Karachi, Pakistan, January 10, 1959; education: B.A., Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 1982; M.P.P, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1985; J.D., Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1990; professional history: attorney; legislative assistant, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr.; staffer, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; senior legislative advisor, Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer; member, Maryland State House of Delegates, 1990-94; member, Maryland State Senate, 1994-2002; election history: elected to the 8th District for the 108th Congress on November 5, 2002; reelected to each succeeding Congress; elected to the U.S. Senate on November 8, 2016; reelected to the U.S. Senate on November 8, 2022.