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Verified July 31, 2026

CORY A. BOOKER, Democrat, of Newark, NJ; born in Washington, DC, April 27, 1969; education: B.A., political science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1991; M.A., sociology, Stanford University, 1992; Oxford University Rhodes Scholar, Oxford, England, 1994; J.D., Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, 1997; professional history: staff attorney, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY, 1997; member, Newark City Council, 1998-2002; partner, Booker, Rabinowitz, Trenk, Lubetkin, Tully, DiPasquale & Webster, P.C., 2002-06; mayor, City of Newark, 2006-13; election history: elected to the U.S. Senate on October 16, 2013, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, sworn in on October 31, 2013; elected to the U.S. Senate on November 4, 2014; reelected to the U.S. Senate on November 3, 2020.

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