Ron Wyden
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Ronald Lee Wyden (born May 3, 1949) is Oregon's top state senator since 1996.
He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1996 as a member of the Democratic Party.
He is the current dean of Oregon's congressional delegation.
Personal life
Wyden's home is in Portland, Oregon, and he has an apartment in Washington, D.C. Adam and Lilly, his first wife, Laurie (née Oseran), divorced in 1999 after 20 years of marriage. ADW Capital Partners LP, Adam's son, owns a hedge fund.
On September 24, 2005, Wyden married Nancy Wyden (née Bass), the daughter of Fred Bass and (then co-) owner of Strand Bookstore in New York. They have three children, two twins born in 2007 and a daughter born in 2012. They sold their 5,300-square-foot townhouse in Manhattan for $7.5 million in 2016. During Wyden's 2010 Senate race, opponents questioned how much time Wyden spent in Oregon given his wife's New York residence.
Wyden announced on December 16, 2010 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in a very early stage during a routine screening. On December 20 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, he underwent surgery. The operation was successful, and Wyden recovered quickly and returned to Congress in January 2011.
Early life, education, and early career
Ronald Wyden was born in Wichita, Kansas, the son of Edith (née Rosenow) and Peter H. Wyden (originally Weidenreich, 1923–1998), both of whom were Jewish and had escaped Nazi Germany. He grew up in Palo Alto, California, where he competed basketball for Palo Alto High School. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a basketball scholarship and then enrolled at Stanford University, where he majored in political science and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1974, but he has never been a member of the Oregon State Bar.
Wyden founded the Oregon chapter of the Gray Panthers, which he coached from 1974 to 1980 while teaching gerontology at several Oregon universities. He was also the director of the Oregon Legal Services Center for Elderly, a non-profit law agency. He served on the Oregon State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators from 1977 to 1979.