Cory Booker

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Cory Booker is New Jersey's senior Democratic senator and former Newark mayor serving his second full term, with leadership roles in criminal justice reform, food policy, and civil rights.

Cory Anthony Booker is the senior U.S. Senator from New Jersey, a Democrat first elected in a 2013 special election to fill Frank Lautenberg's seat, then re-elected in 2014 and 2020. A Washington D.C. native raised in Harrington Park, New Jersey, Booker was a Stanford football player and Yale Law graduate who also studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He served on the Newark City Council and as mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, gaining national prominence for hands-on crisis response and urban-reform initiatives. In the 119th Congress, Booker serves on Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Agriculture, and Small Business committees, holding ranking member positions on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy and Antitrust, the Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodities, and the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health. He chairs the Democratic Strategic Communications Committee and has been a leading voice on criminal justice reform, including the 2018 First Step Act, food policy and nutrition, police accountability, and civil rights. He ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.