Michael Farrand Bennet is the senior United States Senator from Colorado. He was appointed to the seat when Senator Ken Salazar became Secretary of the Interior. Bennet previously worked as a managing director for the Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, and Superintendent of Denver Public Schools. He is the son of Douglas Bennet, a former State Department official and president of Wesleyan University. His mother is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who was born in 1938 in Warsaw, Poland.
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Michael Farrand Bennet is the senior United States Senator from Colorado. He was appointed to the seat when Senator Ken Salazar became Secretary of the Interior. Bennet previously worked as a managing director for the Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, and Superintendent of Denver Public Schools. In late 2008 he was speculated to be a candidate for Obama’s United States Secretary of Education. On May 2, 2019, Bennet announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. He dropped out of the race on February 11, 2020, after a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary. He is the son of Douglas Bennet, a former State Department official and president of Wesleyan University. His mother is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who was born in 1938 in Warsaw, Poland and immigrated to the U.S. with her family in 1950. Her parents survived imprisonment in the Warsaw Ghetto. His grandfather was an economic adviser in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration. His father ran the. United States Agency for International Development under President Jimmy Carter, served as President and CEO of National Public Radio, and Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization. Affairs in the Clinton administration. He graduated from St. Albans School, an elite all-boys preparatory school, and served as a page on Capitol Hill. He earned his J. D. degree from Yale Law School, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal.
In 1987 he earned his Bachelor of Arts in history from Wesleyan, the alma mater of his father and grandfather. He worked for Ohio Governor Richard Celeste. He then served as Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General during the Bill Clinton administration, and was a law clerk for the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and as an associate to Washington, D. C. attorney Lloyd Cutler. He left the legal world and moved West. After briefly living in Montana, he moved with his fiancé to Colorado in 1997. He moved to Denver in 1997 and became superintendent of the Denver public school system in July 2005. In 2008, he was appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to fill the. U. S. Senate seat vacated byKen Salazar when Salazar become Secretary of. the Interior in January 2009. He won the 2010 Senate election, defeating Republican Ken Buck. He chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the 2014 cycle and was reelected to the Senate in 2016. He has been married to his wife, Jennifer, since 2008 and they have a son, Michael Bennet Jr., and a daughter, Emily Bennet-Bennet, since 2011. He lives in Denver with his wife and two children. He also has a son and step-daughter in New York City, New York, New Jersey, and a step-son in Los Angeles, California. He currently lives with his fiancee in Denver, New Mexico, and has a daughter and a son in New Jersey.
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