New Jersey Senator Cory Booker (Democratic Party) is a member of the United States Senate. On October 31, 2013, he took office. On January 3, 2027, his present term will come to an end.
Booker, a Democrat, stood for re-election to the United States Senate to represent the state of New Jersey. On November 3, 2020, he won the general election.
Booker also ran for President of the United States of America. On August 18, 2020, he abandoned his candidacy before the Democratic National Convention.
Booker was born in Washington, D.C., to IBM executives as parents. Later, the family moved to New Jersey.
Which college did Cory Booker go to?
He attended the University of Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship. After that, Booker went to Yale Law School.
What are his academic qualifications?
He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University in 1991 and 1992, respectively.
He was a tight end for Stanford, where he played alongside Brad Muster and Ed McCaffrey and was named to the All–Pacific-10 Academic team. He was elected president of the senior class. Booker also organized support from Stanford students for adolescents in East Palo Alto, California, through The Bridge Peer Counseling Center, a student-run crisis hotline.
