Cory Booker
American politician and lawyer
Cory Booker is an American politician and lawyer who has served as a United States senator from New Jersey since 2013. He was previously mayor of Newark.
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American Born 1969 in Washington, D.C., United States
About Cory Booker
Cory Booker was born in Washington, D.C., in 1969 and raised in Harrington Park, New Jersey. He studied at Stanford University, then attended Queen's College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, and later earned a law degree at Yale Law School. He served on the Municipal Council of Newark from 1998 to 2002 and was the city's mayor from 2006 to 2013. He was elected to the US Senate in 2013 as a member of the Democratic Party. He sought the Democratic presidential nomination for 2020 and suspended that campaign in January 2020. In 2025 he delivered a Senate speech that lasted 25 hours and five minutes, the longest in the chamber's history. His books include United.