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      • Christopher Coons Party
      • Party

        Democratic
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      • Current Office

        U.S. Senate
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      • First Elected

        11/2/2010
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      • Next Election

        2014
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      • Missed Vote %

        1.98%
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      • Votes with Party

        98.29%
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      24 Northwest Front Street Windsor Building Suite 101 Milford, DE

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    • Christopher Andrew "Chris" Coons is the junior United States senator from Delaware and a member of the Democratic Party. He won a special election in 2010 to succeed Joe Biden, who had resigned to become Vice President. Previously, Coons was the county executive of New Castle County. Coons is the 1983 Truman Scholar from Delaware, and the first recipient of the award to serve in the United States Senate.
      A native of Hockessin, Delaware, Coons graduated from Amherst College and received graduate degrees from Yale Divinity School and Yale Law School. He went to work as a volunteer relief worker in Kenya, where he had taken classes in the University of Nairobi, later returning to the U.S. to w...
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Date Born

BORN

9/9/1963

Official Birthplace

BIRTHPLACE

Greenwich, CT

Home City

HOME CITY

Wilmington, DE

Religion

Religion

  Presbyterian

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Attorney, W.L. Gore and Associates

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE

Senator, United States Senate, 2010-present County Executive, New Castle County, 2005-2010 President, New Castle County Council, 2001-2005

EDUCATION

JD, Yale University, 1992 Master's, Divinity, Yale University, 1992 BA, Chemistry/Political Science, Amherst College, 1985 Attended, University of Nairobi

FAMILY

Wife: Annie; Children: Michael, Jack, Maggie

COMMITTEES JOINED
  • Sen. Christopher Coons

    Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, Member, Subcommittee on The Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, Member, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, Member, Subcommittee on African Affairs, Chair, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Member, Committee on Appropriations, Member, Committee on the Budget, Member, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Member, Committee on Foreign Relations, Member, Committee on the Judiciary, Member,