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      • Lamar Alexander Party
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        Republican
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      • Current Office

        U.S. Senate
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      • First Elected

        11/5/2002
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      • Next Election

        2014
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        6.70%
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        85.97%
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    • Andrew Lamar Alexander, Jr. (born July 3, 1940) is an American politician and the senior United States Senator from Tennessee, serving since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Alexander previously served as the Conference Chair of the Republican Party in the U.S. Senate from 2007 to 2012.

      Born in Maryville, Tennessee, Alexander is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and New York University School of Law. He worked as a legislative assistant to Senator Howard Baker and as an assistant in the Nixon Administration in the late 1960s. He won the Republican nomination for the 1974 Tennessee gubernatorial election, but was defeated by Congressman Ray Blanton in the general election. In 1978, ...
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Date Born

BORN

7/3/1940

Official Birthplace

BIRTHPLACE

Maryville, TN

Home City

HOME CITY

Nashville, TN

Religion

Religion

  Presbyterian

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lawyer, Law Firm of Baker, Worthington, Crossley, Stansberry and Woolf, 1998 Lawyer, Law Firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman and Caldwell, 1993-1995 Chair, Republican Exchange Satellite Network, 1993-1995 President, University of Tennessee, 1988-1991 Chair, Leadership Institute at Belmont University, 1987-1988 Special Counsel to Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, 1977 Commentator, WSM Television in Nashville, 1975-1977 Lawyer/Founding Partner, Law Firm of Dearborn and Ewing, 1970-1976 Director, Tennessee Governor Winfield Dunn's Election Campaign, 1970 Executive Assistant to Bryce Harlow, White House Congressional Liaison for President Richard Nixon, 1969-1970 Legislative Assistant, Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker, 1967-1968 Director, Howard Baker's Campaign for United States Senate, 1966 Law Clerk, United States Circuit Court Judge John Minor Wisdom, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, New Orleans, 1965-1966 Co-Founder, Corporate Child Care Services Goodman Professor, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Lawyer, Law Firm of Fowler, Roundree and Robertson Author

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE

Senator, United States Senate, 2002-present Candidate for United States President, 1996, 2000 Secretary, Department of Education, 1991-1993 Governor of Tennessee, 1979-1987 Candidate for Governor of Tennessee, 1974

EDUCATION

JD, New York University Law School, 1965 BA, Latin American History, Vanderbilt University, 1962

FAMILY

Wife: Honey; 4 Children: Andrew, Leslee, Kathryn, William

COMMITTEES JOINED
  • Sen. Lamar Alexander

    Subcommittee on Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, and Children's Health Protection, Member, Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, and Environmental Health, Member, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Member, Subcommittee on Defense, Member, Subcommittee on Energy And Water Development, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, Member, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Member, Subcommittee on Children and Families, Member, Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety, Member, Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife, Member, Committee on Appropriations, Member, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Member, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Ranking Member, Committee on Rules and Administration, Member,