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Robert Menendez

Bob Menendez
Robert Menendez official Senate portrait.jpg
United States Senator
from New Jersey
Assumed office
January 17, 2006
Serving with Cory Booker
Preceded by Jon Corzine
Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
In office
February 1, 2013 – January 3, 2015
Preceded by John Kerry
Succeeded by Bob Corker
Chair of the House Democratic Caucus
In office
January 3, 2003 – January 16, 2006
Leader Nancy Pelosi
Preceded by Martin Frost
Succeeded by Jim Clyburn
Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus
In office
January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2003
Leader Nancy Pelosi
Preceded by Barbara Kennelly
Succeeded by Jim Clyburn
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's 13th district
In office
January 3, 1993 – January 16, 2006
Preceded by Frank Guarini
Succeeded by Albio Sires
Member of the New Jersey State Senate
from the 33rd district
In office
March 4, 1991 – January 3, 1993
Preceded by Christopher Jackman
Succeeded by Bernard Kenny
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
from the 33rd district
In office
January 12, 1988 – March 4, 1991
Preceded by Jose Arango
Succeeded by Louis Romano
Mayor of Union City
In office
1986–1992
Preceded by Arthur Wichert
Succeeded by Bruce Walter
Personal details
Born Robert Menendez
(1954-01-01) January 1, 1954 (age 63)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Jane Jacobsen (1976–2005)
Children 2 (including Alicia)
1 stepdaughter
Education Saint Peter's University (BA)
Rutgers University, Newark (JD)
Signature
Website Senate website

Robert "Bob" Menendez /mɛˈnɛndɛz/ (born January 1, 1954) is the senior United States Senator from the State of New Jersey. He is a member of the Democratic Party of the United States. First appointed to the U.S. Senate in January 2006, he was later elected Chair of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in January 2013.

In 1974, at the age of 20, he was first elected to the Union City School District's Board of Education. In 1986, won the election for Mayor of Union City. In 1988, while continuing to serve as mayor, he was elected to represent the state's 33rd district in the General Assembly of New Jersey and, within three years, moved to the New Jersey State Senate, upon winning the March 1991 special election for the 33rd Senate district. The next year he won a seat in the Congress of the United States for the House of Representatives and represented New Jersey's 13th congressional district for six two-year terms, from 1993 to 2006. In January 2006, he was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jon Corzine (who had been elected 54th Governor of New Jersey), and was elected to a full six-year term in November and re-elected following in 2012.


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