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Thomas Jonathan Ossoff (born February 16, 1987) is an American politician, film director, and activist. In the ensuing 2017 special election in Georgia's 6th congressional district, Ossoff was the Democratic Party nominee for Congress.

Early life and education

Ossoff was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 16, 1987. He was born in Northlake, an unincorporated neighborhood. Heather Fenton, Ossoff's mother, was born and raised in Sydney but immigrated to the United States at the age of 23. She co-founded NewPower PAC, an organization that aims to elect women to local office around Georgia. Richard Ossoff, a descendant of Russian Jewish and Lithuanian Jews, is the father of Strafford Publications, a specialist publishing company. Ossoff was born Jewish and, although his mother, a gentile, officially converted to the faith prior to his bar mitzvah. In an interview, his ancestors fled pogroms in the early twentieth century, and he shared how this greatly influenced him and his worldviews. He previously held dual Australian citizenship through his mother.

He attended The Paideia School, an independent school in Atlanta. He interned for civil rights leader and U.S. Representative John Lewis while in high school. Ossoff graduated from Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Former US ambassador to the United States Michael Oren taught him in classes. In 2013, he obtained a Master of Science degree in international political economy from the London School of Economics.

Personal life

Ossoff is married to Alisha Kramer, an Emory University Obstetrics and Gynecology student, and a graduate of Georgetown University and Emory University School of Medicine. After 12 years of dating, Ossoff married Kramer in 2017. Kramer was working an overnight shift at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on the night of Ossoff's aspiration to the United States Senate in January 2021. The couple has one daughter, who was born in December 2021.

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Early career

Ossoff served as a national security staffer and legislative advisor for US Representative Hank Johnson from 2007 to 2012. Ossoff was the managing director and chief executive officer of Insight: The World Investigates (TWI), a London-based investigative television production company that works with journalists and researchers, and it produced documentaries on corruption in foreign countries from 2013 to 2021. The company undertook BBC investigations into ISIS war crimes and death squads in East Africa. Ossoff was instrumental in the creation of a documentary about a play in Sierra Leone. Ossoff had an inheritance from his grandfather, a former co-owner of a Massachusetts leather factory, who contributed $250,000 to Insight: TWI, a company founder and former BBC journalist Ron McCullagh, who first met Ossoff while on vacation to France and with whom he stayed in touch afterward.

Ossoff declared his candidacy in the special election on January 5, 2017. Ossoff emerged as the most popular Democratic candidate out of a large field of candidates. Hank Johnson and John Lewis, both representatives, and state House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams were among their endorsements. Bernie Sanders, a U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate, also has his public support. By early April of this year, Ossoff's gross sales had grown to over $8.3 million.

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ossoff "transformed what was supposed to be a quiet contest for a long-safe Republican seat into a proxy war against Trump, the health care reform, and the partisan fight for suburbia." The Cook Partisan Voting Index rated Georgia's 6th congressional district at R+14 when he entered the race; the district was not considered competitive, and Republican candidates had been in congress since 1978; Democrats had been overwhelmingly represented since 1978. Price had been re-elected in a landslide less than two months before Ossoff's declaration, with 66% of the vote.

Ossoff grew up in what is now the 6th district, where his family lives, but he lived about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) outside the district's boundaries in the neighboring 4th district during the 2010 census. He said he lived in the 4th for a brief period of time so that his mother, now a Emory University medical student, would walk to work. Members of the House of Representatives are only allowed to live in the state they represent. During the campaign, the two became involved.

No candidate secured 56% of the vote in the blanket primary on April 18, 2017. With about 48.1 percent of the vote, Republican presidential Karen Handel received 19.8 percent, and the remainder of votes were dispersed for 16 other candidates. Because no one in the field had a landslide, the top two vote-getters, Ossoff and Handel, campaigned in a run-off election on June 20, 2017. According to Ossoff, he gained just 11% of the Democratic vote, while the Republican party was more split. Republicans received 51.2 percent of the overall vote.

Ossoff set new fundraising records for a U.S. House candidate. His campaign raised more than $23 million, two-thirds of which were funded by small-dollar contributors around the country. Handel's campaign was criticized by national Republican groups for raising significant small-dollar contributions from outside of Georgia, but Handel's campaign received the majority of the funds from super PACs and other outside organizations, including those funded anonymously by so-called "dark funds." Overall spending by the campaigns and other advocacy groups on their behalf increased to over $55 million, the most expensive House election in U.S. history. During the campaign, Republicans concentrated on linking him to Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi, a polarizing and unpopular figure among Republicans; Ossoff denied that if elected, he would vote for Pelosi for Speaker.

Handel defeated Ossoff by 50.8 percent to 48.22 percent in the runoff on June 20. "while his percentage of the total vote stayed unchanged from April to now," Ossoff's associates might have gotten 32,220 more votes in those three months, a 34 percent increase," Ossoff and his allies may have gotten almost every Democrat vote there was ever intended to get, but it wasn't always enough to overcome the GOP's numerical advantage. "Probably the most vibrant Democratic turnout in an off-year election in at least a decade," the New York Times said, "brought a surprising number of young and non-white voters to the polls." and nearly doubled youth voter registration in the 6th district from the 2014 midterm election. However, "surging Democratic turnout wasn't enough to overcome heavy GOP support in a district where Republicans significantly outnumber Democrats," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Frank Bruni, a New York Times reporter, characterized the election as "demoralizing for Democrats" after hearing news of the results. This was as close as a Democrat came to winning this district after it was first established as a northern suburban district in 1992; Democratic challengers had won more than 60% of the vote only twice before.

Ossoff said on February 23, 2018 that he did not run for office in the regular election in 2018; Democrat Lucy McBath took the position in November 2018.

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