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Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician currently serving as the junior United States Senator from New Jersey, in office since 2013. Before that Booker served on the Newark City Council for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002. He won an upset victory for a seat on the Municipal Council of Newark in 1998 where he staged a 10-day hunger strike and briefly lived in a tent to draw attention to urban development issues in the city.
Senator from New Jersey, he was previously the 36th Mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013. He studied abroad at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship before attending Yale Law School.
In addition to his crime-lowering initiatives, Booker doubled the amount of affordable housing under development and quadrupled the amount under pre-development, and reduced the city budget deficit from 0 million to million.
Re-elected in 2010, his second term failed to meaningfully revitalize Newark's economy but his personal involvement in public service earned him a national presence. During his five years in office, Booker co-sponsored and voted for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (2013), tougher sanctions against Iran, sponsored the Bipartisan Budget Act (2013), voted for the National Defense Authorization Act (2014) and co-sponsored the Respect for Marriage Act (2014).While at Stanford, he played football as a tight end and was teammates with Brad Muster and Ed Mc Caffrey, He earned his Juris Doctor in 1997 from Yale Law School, where he operated free legal clinics for low-income residents of New Haven, Connecticut.At Yale, Booker was a founding member of the Chai Society (now Shabtai), To draw attention to the problems of open-air drug dealing and associated violence, he went on a 10-day hunger strike and lived in a tent and later in a motor home near drug-dealing areas of the city.On April 3, 2010, Booker announced his campaign for reelection.
At his announcement event, he remarked that a "united government" was crucial to progress, knowing his supporters in the city council faced tough reelections.
" Other people volunteered, including one person who offered his help on Twitter, and 20 minutes later Booker and some volunteers showed up and shoveled the man's driveway.