Cory Booker
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Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician who has served as the junior United States Senator from New Jersey since 2013 and a member of the Democratic Party.
The first African-American U.S. embassy in the United States. Senator Bill Murray of New Jersey served as the 36th Mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013.
Booker served on the Municipal Council of Newark's Central Ward from 1998 to 2002.
He declared his campaign on February 1, 2019 that he would run for President of the United States in the 2020 presidential election. Booker was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Harrington Park, New Jersey.
He attended Stanford University in 1991, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1991 and then a master's degree a year later.
He earned a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford before attending Yale Law School.
In 1998, he defeated for a seat on the Municipal Council of Newark, where he staged a 10-day hunger strike and briefly lived in a tent to draw attention to urban growth issues in the area.
In 2002, he ran for mayor but lost to incumbent Sharpe James; he ran again in 2006 and defeated deputy Mayor Ronald Rice.
Affordable housing under construction doubled during his first term, as well as the reduction of the city budget deficit from $180 million to $73 million.
In 2010, he was re-elected.
In the 2013 U.S. Senate special election, he ran against Steve Lonegan and later gained reelection against Jeff Bell. Senator Leo Varadkar's voting record was ranked as the third most liberal in the nation.
Booker, a social liberal, supports women's rights, affirmative action, same-sex marriages, and single-payer healthcare.
Booker co-sponsored and voted for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (2013), tougher measures against Iran, and supported the Bipartisan Budget Act (2014), which was included in the successful push to pass the First Step Act (2018) during his five years in office.
He became the first sitting senator to testify against another when he testified against Attorney General Jeff Sessions during his confirmation hearing in 2017.
Following the FBI search of Michael Cohen's United States' headquarters in April 2018, the U.S. ambassador was deposed in April 2018. The Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act was introduced by President Donald Trump's personal counsel–Booker, alongside Chris Coons, Lindsey Graham, and Thom Tillis to limit President Trump's executive powers.
Early life and education
The booker was born in Washington, D.C.; he grew up in Harrington Park, New Jersey, 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Newark. Carolyn Rose (née Jordan) and Cary Alfred Booker, both of his parents, were among the first black IBM employees to do so. According to the booker, he and his family attended a small African Methodist Episcopal Church in New Jersey. The booker has Sierra Leonean roots, which he learned when he appeared on PBS' "Find Your Roots."
Booker graduated from Northern Valley Regional High School in Old Tappan, where he competed in youth football and was named to the 1986 USA Today high school football team. In 1991, he graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and a master of Arts in sociology. He played for Stanford at the time of tight end and was teammates with Brad Muster and Ed McCaffrey, who made the All-Pacific Academic team. He was elected senior class president. Booker also operated The Bridge Peer Counseling Center, a student-run crisis hotline, and recruited Stanford students for youth in East Palo Alto, California.
In 1994, the booker was granted a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Queen's College, Oxford, receiving a degree in United States history. Booker served as president of the Oxford University L'Chaim Society at Oxford University. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1997 and operated free legal clinics for low-income New Haven, Connecticut residents. Booker, a founding member of the Chai Society (now Shabtai), was a founding member of Yale University (now Shabtai). He was also a Big Brother with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and an active member of the National Black Law Students Union.
Personal life
When he was a student at Oxford University in 1992, the booker began exercising regularly and was also a vegetarian. He avoids alcohol and "has no known vices or addictions" other than coffee. Booker began eating a vegan diet in 2014 and has expressed his vegan ethical philosophy and animal advocacy. As of June 2016, Booker worshiped at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Newark.
In 1992, Booker recalled in his column for The Stanford Daily that as a 15-year-old kissing a friend on New Year's Eve, he reached for her breast and then "reached [his]'mark.' The column discussed Booker's change in sexual orientations and how "skewed attitudes" lead to rape. During the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings in September 2018, the Daily Caller and Fox News picked up the column.
Booker lived in Brick Towers, a struggling housing project in Newark's Central Ward, from 1998 to 2006. Booker left his apartment on Hawthorne Avenue in Newark's South Ward in November 2006 as one of the last remaining tenants in Brick Towers, a drug- and gang-plagued neighborhood of boarded-up houses and empty parking garage. Brick Towers have since been demolished, and in 2010, a new mixed-income apartment building was built there.
Since 2013, Booker has lived in a townhouse he owns in Lincoln Park, Newark's Central Ward, also known as "the Coast" for its arts, jazz, and nightlife history.
He speaks Spanish; he completed a Spanish immersion course in Ecuador.
Since appearing on the television show Finding Your Roots, Booker learned that he and comedian RuPaul are cousins.
Booker has never been married, and in 2013 he was named one of Town & Country's "Top 40 Bachelors" to be a booker. Although Booker has generally kept his personal life private, he has in the past referred to himself as a "straight male" and said he is dating more in the hopes of finding someone to settle with. He has been romantically linked to poet Cleo Wade. Rosario Dawson, a British actress, told TMZ that she was in a Booker-to-Beer relationship in March 2019. In February 2022, the couple's relationship came to an end.
Booker confessed that as a youth he had "hated gays" in a column in The Stanford Daily in 1992. He has personally been the object of rumors of being gay, and has generally refused to comment on principle, as he explained in 2013:
