Ben Sasse
Politician and university administrator
Ben Sasse is an American politician and academic who represented Nebraska in the US Senate from 2015 to 2023. He later led the University of Florida.
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American Born 1972 in Plainview, United States
About Ben Sasse
Benjamin Eric Sasse was born on February 22, 1972, in Plainview, Nebraska. He studied at Harvard University, St. John's College and Yale University, where he earned a Ph.D. in American history. He taught at the University of Texas and worked as an assistant secretary at the US Department of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush. He then became president of Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska. Sasse, a Republican, was elected to the US Senate in 2014 and re-elected in 2020. He left the Senate in January 2023 to head the University of Florida, and he stepped down from that post in July 2024. While he served in the Senate, he and his wife, Melissa, homeschooled their three children. His book Them is in the BookBits catalog.