Richard Blumenthal
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Richard Blumenthal (born February 13, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as a Connecticut Senator since 2011.
He is a member of the Democratic Party.
He has been named as one of the Senate's most powerful senators since 2013, and he is ranked as one of the state's wealthiest senators, with a net worth of over $100 million.
He served as Attorney General of Connecticut from 1991 to 2011. Blumenthal, a Bronx girl born in Brooklyn, New York, attended Riverdale Country School.
He graduated from Harvard College, where he was editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson.
He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, England, before deciding Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of Yale Law Journal.
He was a classmate of Bill and Hillary Clinton, the future President and Secretary of State, respectively, while attending Yale.
Blumenthal served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1970 to 1976, where he attained the rank of sergeant. Blumenthal graduated from law school and served as both an administrative assistant and law clerk for several Washington, D.C. residents for many years.
He served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut from 1977 to 1981.
He began working in private law, including as a volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the early 1980s.
He served one term in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987; in 1986, he was elected to the Connecticut Senate and began serving in 1987.
He was elected Attorney General of Connecticut in 1990 and served for 20 years.
During this time, political observers speculated about him as a candidate for Governor of Connecticut, but he never pursued the position. After incumbent Democratic Sen. Paul Blumenthal's re-election bid in 2010, Blumenthal declared his bid for the Senate in 2010.
Chris Doddd announced his resignation.
In the 2010 election, he met Linda McMahon, a forensic wrestling magnate, winning by a 12-point margin with 56% of the vote.
On January 5, 2011, he was sworn in.
He was elected to the Senate Armed Services; Judiciary; Aging; and, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committees.
Blumenthal, the state's senior senator following Joe Lieberman's retirement in 2013, became the state senator after his departure in 2013.
He won re-election in 2016 with 63.2% of the vote, making him the first individual to receive more than one million votes in a statewide election in Connecticut.
Early life and education
Blumenthal, the son of Jane (née Rosenstock) and Martin Blumenthal, was born in Brooklyn, New York. Martin Blumenthal, a 17-year-old German immigrant, came from Frankfurt, Germany; Jane was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and became a social worker at Radcliffe College. Martin Blumenthal was involved in financial services and then became president of a commodities brokerage company. Fred "Fritz" Rosenstock, Jane's father, raised cattle, and Blumenthal and his brother visited their grandfather's farm as youths. Blumenthal's brother David Blumenthal, a physician and health-care policy specialist, became president of the Commonwealth Fund.
Blumenthal attended Riverdale Country School in the Bronx's Riverdale neighborhood. He continued to Harvard College, graduating with an A.B. in 1967. Degree magna cum lauded and was accepted into Phi Beta Kappa. He served as a Harvard Crimson's editorial chairman as an undergraduate. Blumenthal, a summer intern reporter for The Washington Post in the London bureau, was a London bureau reporter. He was nominated for a Fiske Fellowship, which allowed him to study at the University of Cambridge, England, for one year following his Harvard graduation.
Blumenthal received his J.D. in 1973. He obtained his degree from Yale Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. He was classmates with future President Bill Clinton and future Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at Yale. Future United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, one of his co-editors of the Yale Law Journal, was one of his co-editors. In addition, he served as a classmate of upcoming Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and radio host Michael Medved.
Personal life
Blumenthal married Cynthia Malkin on June 27, 1982. They were married the following year during her senior year at Harvard and married the following year. Lawrence Wien's maternal grandmother, Peter L. Malkin, is her niece. They have four children. Matt Blumenthal was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 147th district of the 147th district in 2018.
Blumenthal's fortune surpasses $100 million, making him one of the Senate's richest citizens. The Malkins are well-known real estate developers and property owners with interests in the Empire State Building; his family's net worth is derived mainly from his wife; his family's are active real estate investors and property managers with a majority stake in the Empire State Building.
Early political career
When Moynihan was Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as a law clerk to Judge Jon O. Newman of Connecticut, and Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Blumenthal served as administrative assistant to Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff as aide to Daniel P. Moynihan.
Blumenthal, the attorney general, was a partner in Cummings & Lockwood's law firm and then in the law firm Silver, Golub & Sandak. He founded and chaired the Citizens Crime Commission of Connecticut, a private, non-profit group, in December 1982 while still at Cummings & Lockwood. He served as a volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1981 to 1986.
Blumenthal, a student at the University of Connecticut, was elected United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, 1981 to 1981. He successfully prosecuted several significant lawsuits involving opioid traffickers, organised crime, white collar criminals, environmental protection, and environmental pollution as the chief federal prosecutor of the state.
Cynthia Allison Malkin married him in 1982. She is the niece of real estate investor Peter L. Malkin. Lawrence Wien, a lawyer and philanthropist, was her maternal grandfather.
Blumenthal was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1984, when he was 38 years old, representing the 145th district. At age 41, he won a special election in 1987 to fill a vacancy in the Connecticut Senate's 27th district. Blumenthal lived in Stamford, Connecticut.
Blumenthal testified in the state legislature in favor of eliminating Connecticut's death penalty law in the 1980s. He did so after representing Joseph Green Brown, a Florida death row prisoner who was found to have been wrongfully convicted. Blumenthal was able to stop Brown's execution just 15 hours before it was supposed to begin, and Brown got a new trial.