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Senate Years of Service: 1985- Party: Democrat
KERRY, John Forbes, a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Fitzsimons Army Hospital
(Colorado), December 11, 1943; graduated, St. Pauls School, Concord, N.H.,
1962; graduated, Yale University 1966; served in the United States Navy
1966-1970, with service in Vietnam; graduated, Boston College Law School 1976;
admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1976 and commenced practice in 1976;
assistant district attorney of Middlesex County, Mass. 1977-1982; lieutenant
governor of Massachusetts 1982-1984; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate in 1984; reelected in 1990, 1996, 2002, and again in 2008 for the term
ending January 3, 2015; chair, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (One
Hundredth Congress), Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (One
Hundred Seventh Congress [January 3-20, 2001; June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003],
One Hundred Tenth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (One Hundred
Eleventh Congress); Democratic candidate for U.S. president, 2004.
BibliographyKerry, John.
A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America. New York:
Penguin Books, 2003; Kerry, John, and Teresa Heinz Kerry.
This Moment on Earth: Todays New Environmentalists and Their Vision
for the Future. New York: Public Affairs, 2007.
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