Chris Van Hollen

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Chris Van Hollen (2010)
Van Hollen, speaking at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, in his capacity as Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman

Christopher "Chris" Van Hollen, Jr. (born January 10, 1959 in Karachi , Pakistan ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . He has represented the state of Maryland in the United States Senate since 2017 , after serving in the US House of Representatives from 2003 to 2017 .

biography

Chris Van Hollen is the son of a diplomatic couple. At the time of his birth, his father Christopher Van Hollen was Second Secretary at the US Embassy in Pakistan and later Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern & South Asian Affairs , most recently from 1972 to 1976 Ambassador to Sri Lanka , while his mother, Eliza Farnsworth Van Hollen, worked as a Southeast Asia specialist at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After attending the Middlesex School, he first studied at Swarthmore College , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1982 . He then completed his first postgraduate degree in Public Policy at Harvard University in 1985 with a Master of Arts (MPP). Another post-graduate study of law at Georgetown University he finished in 1990 with a Juris Doctor (JD); then he was admitted as a lawyer .

In 1990 he began his political career for the Democrats with the election to the Maryland House of Representatives , to which he was a member until 1994. He was then a member of the Maryland Senate between 1994 and 2002 .

In 2002 Van Hollen was elected to the US House of Representatives with 51.71 to 47.49 percent against the Republican incumbent Connie Morella . There he represented Maryland's 8th Congressional electoral district from January 3, 2003 and was re-elected four times. Within the leadership of the democratic majority faction , he took sixth place as the successor to Rahm Emanuel from 2007 to 2011 as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee .

At the beginning of March 2015, he announced that he would apply for the Democratic nomination for Barbara Mikulski's vacant seat in the US Senate in the November 2016 election . He prevailed in the primary against his inner-party rival Donna Edwards and also clearly won the actual election against the Republican Kathy Szeliga , whereupon he moved to the Senate on January 3, 2017 within Congress .

Web links

Commons : Chris Van Hollen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kyle Cheney: Chris Van Hollen to run for open Mikulski seat. In: Politico.com , March 4, 2015.
  2. ^ Maryland Senate Race: Chris Van Hollen Easily Defeats Kathy Szeliga. In: Bethesda Patch , November 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Van Hollen, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Van Hollen, Christopher junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Karachi , Pakistan