Timothy Michael Kaine is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Virginia. Kaine was the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election as the running mate of Hillary Clinton. He previously served as the 38th lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006 and 70th governor ofVirginia from 2006 to 2010. Kaine successfully sought re-election to a second Senate term in 2018.
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Timothy Michael Kaine is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Virginia. Kaine was the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election as the running mate of Hillary Clinton. He previously served as the 38th lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006 and 70th governor ofVirginia from 2006 to 2010. Kaine is the eldest of three sons born to Mary Kathleen, a home economics teacher, and Albert Alexander Kaine, Jr., a welder and the owner of a small iron-working shop. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Overland Park, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1979 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1983. He is fluent in Spanish as a result of his nine months in Honduras. He married first-year Harvard Law student Anne Holton in 1987. Kaine and Holton moved to Holton’s hometown of Richmond, Virginia, after graduation, and Kaine was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1984. Kaine practiced law in Richmond for 17 years, specializing in fair housing law and representing clients discriminated against on the basis of race or disability. He represented in a landmark redlining discrimination lawsuit against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. arising from the company’s practices in Richmond. In 1994, Kaine was elected to the city council of Richmond as the independent city councilman. He took his seat on the Richmond City Council on July 1, 2011, and retained the position until September 10, 2011. Kaine successfully sought re-election to a second Senate term in 2018, defeating Republican Corey Stewart.
He became the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011. On July 22, 2016, Hillary Clinton introduced Kaine as her vice presidential running mate. The 2016 Democratic National Convention nominated him on July 27. Despite winning a plurality of the national popular vote, the Clinton–Kaine ticket lost the Electoral College, and thus the election, to the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Mike Pence on November 8, 2016. Kaine’s great-grandparents were Scottish and the other seven were Irish. He has a son with the former first lady of Virginia, Mary Kathleen Kaine, and a daughter with former First Lady of Virginia Kathleen Kaine. Kaine has two step-daughters with former first Lady Kathleen Kaine and a step-son with former Vice President Joe Biden. He and his wife have three children with the ex-wife of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. Kaine had a largely apolitical childhood, but became interested in politics in part to influence of his wife’s family and family experience attending his Richmond city council meetings. In 1988, Kaine started teaching legal ethics as an adjunct professor at University of Richmond School of Law. Kaine taught at the university for six years, and was a founding member of the Virginia End Homelessness Coalition. In 1989, Kaine and his colleagues negotiated a USD 17 million settlement in a case involving Nationwide Mutual insurance Co. arising from a redlining redlining lawsuit.
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