Antony “Tony” Blinken will be Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state in the new administration. Blinken (58) served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State from 2015 to 2017, and Deputy National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2015. Previously, he served in the State Department and in senior positions on the National Security Council staff.…
Ronald “Ron” Klain (59) has been named White House Chief of Staff in the new Biden Administration. Klain is an attorney and longtime political consultant. He served as chief of staff for Vice President AL Gore and later Vice President Joe Biden. In addition, President Barack Obama appointed him to be the White House Ebola…
In 2014, Democrat Elizabeth “Libby” Schaaf (54) won her first term as mayor of Oakland with 62.79% of the vote. She was reelected in 2018 with 27% more votes than her opponent. Prior to entering politics, Shaaf was an attorney in Oakland – where she was born and raised – and program director for the…
Dan Gelber (60), the mayor of Miami Beach, Fla., is definitely a “chip off the ol’ block.” Pictured is Gelber being sworn in to his mayoral position by his father, 98-year-old Seymour Gelber, who once served in the same position. The younger Gelber, a Democrat, has been at loggerheads with Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis,…
Since 2017, Theodore “Ted” Deutch (54) has served as the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 22nd congressional district. Deutch, a Democrat and an attorney, first became a member of the House of Representatives in 2010; he served two other Florida districts before his current position. He has been Chair of the House Ethics Committee since 2019.…
Jacklyn “Jacky” Rosen (D), 63, was elected to the U.S. Senate from Nevada in 2018. (Raised by a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother, she considers herself to be Jewish.) Rosen was one of three Senators to press for the creation of a federal special envoy position to combat antisemitism. Prior to serving in the Senate,…
Ronald (Ron) Wyden (D), 71, has served as the U.S. Senator from Oregon since 1996. From 1981 to 1996 he was a member of the House of Representatives. Wyden is the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee. In May 2017, he co-sponsored — with Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, who also is Jewish — Senate…
Political activist Ezra Klein is co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, a nonprofit…
Democrat Stephen Adler, 64, took over the office of mayor of Austin, Texas, in early 2015. One of his signature issues in that position has been homelessness, especially among veterans. Prior to entering politics, Adler practiced law in the Texas city for more than three decades, during which he focused on eminent domain and employment…
At 38, Jacob Frey has accomplished a lot in less than four decades: He competed as a member of Team USA in the Pan American Games, finishing 4th in the marathon; graduated cum laude from the law school at Villanova University; served on the Minneapolis City Council for four years; and won the city’s mayoral…
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