Todd Young

Todd Young

Todd Christopher Young (born August 24, 1972 in Lancaster , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician . From 2011 to 2017 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives . In January 2017 he moved within the Congress in the United States Senate .

Career

Todd Young attended the public schools in Hamilton County , Indiana. In 1990 and 1991 he served in the US Navy . He then studied until 1995 at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis ( Maryland ); he then served in the United States Marine Corps between 1995 and 2000 . He also studied at the University of Chicago and the University of London in the British capital. After a subsequent law degree at Indiana University and his admission to the bar in 2006, he began to work in this profession. From 2007 to 2010, he was the Assistant Attorney General in Orange County .

Politically, Young joined the Republican Party . From 2001 to 2003 he worked for US Senator Richard Lugar . In the 2010 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , with 52.2 percent of the vote in the ninth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded the previously defeated Democrat Baron Hill on January 3, 2011 . Todd Young was a member of the Armed Forces Committee , the Budget Committee and two sub-committees. He later became a member of the Committee on Ways and Means and two of its sub-committees. In 2011 Young accepted a German scholarship holder from the German Marshall Fund of the United States as a military and security policy speaker. After two re-elections, he was able to exercise his mandate until January 3, 2017.

In November 2016 , Young was elected to the US Senate against Democrat Evan Bayh . There he took up his six-year mandate on January 3, 2017 as the successor to Dan Coats .

He has four children with his wife Jennifer; the family lives in Bloomington .

Web links

• Web presence at the congress
• Todd Young in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Todd Young Defeats Evan Bayh in the Indiana Senate Race. In: US News & World Report , November 8, 2016.