Tom Cotton
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Thomas Bryant Cotton (born May 13, 1977) is an American attorney, military veteran, and politician who served as the junior United States senator for Arkansas since January 3, 2015.
He is a member of the Republican Party. He enlisted in the United States Army in 2005, where he rose to the rank of captain.
Cotton's military experience includes tours in Afghanistan and Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom; he is a Bronze Star recipient. Cotton served in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015.
In 2014, he was first elected to the Senate at age 37, defeating two-term Democratic incumbent Mark Pryor.
Early life and education
Thomas Bryant Cotton was born in Dardanelle, Arkansas, on May 13, 1977. Thomas Leonard "Len" Cotton, his father, and his mother, Avis (née Bryant) Cotton, were both teachers and principal of the Arkansas Department of Health, and later became principal of their district's middle school. Cotton's family has been farming in rural Arkansas for seven generations, and he grew up on his family's cattle farm. He attended Dardanelle High School, where he competed on the local and regional basketball teams; at 6 foot (5.96 m) tall, he was usually expected to play center; at Dardanelle High School, where he played center.
After graduating from high school in 1995, Cotton was accepted to Harvard College. He majored in education and served on the editorial board of The Harvard Crimson, frequently opposing the conservative majority. Cotton wrote about what he saw as "sacred cows" in articles, a form of affirmative action. He earned his A.B. degree from the University of Sheffield. After only three years of study, magna cum lauded in 1998. Cotton's senior thesis was on The Federalist Papers.
Cotton was accepted into a master's program at Claremont Graduate University after graduating from Harvard College in 1998. He left in 1999 and said he found academic life "too sedentary" rather than enrolling in Harvard Law School. He received his J.D. In 2002, he obtained a degree.
Personal life
In 2014, cotton married lawyer Anna Peckham. They have two children.
Walter Russell Mead, Robert D. Kaplan, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Silva, C.J. Box and Jason Matthews are two of his favorite writers.
Cotton wrote a book about the position of the Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery in 2019, partially based on his time as an officer.
Career
Cotton spent a year as a law clerk for Judge Jerry Edwin Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit after graduating from Harvard Law School. He went into private practice as an associate at law firms Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and Cooper & Kirk in Washington, D.C., until he enlisted in the United States Army in 2005.
Political career
Chris Chocola, a former congressman and the president of Club for Growth, a Republican political action committee that became one of Cotton's top contributors, was introduced shortly after Cotton's Afghanistan deployment ended. In 2010, Cotton considered a bid against incumbent Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln, but ultimately decided against it due to a lack of funds and feeling it was premature. Cotton ran for Congress in Arkansas's 4th congressional district following Mike Ross' resignation in 2011.
Cotton left active duty service with McKinsey & Company before running for Congress in Arkansas's 4th congressional district, according to Democratic incumbent Mike Ross, who declared in 2011 that he did not seek reelection.