Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen was born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan on January 10th, 1959 and is the Politician. At the age of 65, Chris Van Hollen biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 65 years old, Chris Van Hollen has this physical status:
Christopher J.'s name is Christopher J.'s hometown is here. Van Hollen Jr. (born January 10, 1959) is an American politician who has been serving as the junior Senator from Maryland since January 3, 2017.
He served as the US Representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district from 2003 to 2017.
He is a member of the Democratic Party. Van Hollen assumed responsibility for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006 (DCCC).
He was instrumental in this campaign to help marginal Democrats and elect more Democrats to Congress in 2008, as he did.
In 2006, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created a new leadership position, Assistant to the Speaker, so that Van Hollen could attend all leadership meetings.
On November 17, 2010, he was elected Ranking Member on the Budget Committee.
Van Hollen was appointed by Pelosi to the 12-member bipartisan Committee on Deficit Reduction, which had a target for major budget reductions by late 2011.
Pelosi appointed Van Hollen to serve on the bicameral conference committee in 2016 to replace former Senator Barbara Mikulski, who lost by 60 percent.
Van Hollen served as Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) from 2017 to 2019.
Personal life
Anna, Nicholas, and Alexander are three children of Van Hollen and his wife Katherine. Van Hollen is of Dutch descent.
Van Hollen died on May 15, 2022, after a minor stroke that occurred over the weekend, and he would remain at George Washington University Hospital for a few days. He was expected to recover to full extent with no long-term effects and would resume his Senate duties later this week.
Early life, education, and career
Edith Eliza (née Farnsworth) and Christopher Van Hollen were born in Karachi, Pakistan, the eldest of three children of American parents, Edith Eliza (née Farnsworth) and Christopher Van Hollen. His father was a Foreign Service officer who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1969–1972) and the United States. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives (1972–1976); his mother served in the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department, where she served as head of the intelligence bureau for South Asia. He lived in Pakistan, Turkey, India, and Sri Lanka for portions of his early life. He returned to the United States for his junior year of high school and attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, where his grandfather once taught.
He is an alumnus of the Kodaikanal International School in southern India. Van Hollen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy at Swarthmore College in 1982. He continued his education at Harvard University, where he obtained a Master of Public Policy degree, focusing on national security issues from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1985. In 1990, he received a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.
Early political career
Van Hollen served as a legislative advisor for defense and foreign policy for the United States. Senator Charles Mathias, a Republican from Maryland, served from 1985 to 1987. He served as a staff member of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1987–1989) as well as a federal affairs advisor for Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer (1989–1991). In 1990, he was admitted to the Maryland bar and joined Arent Fox's law firm.