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U.S. Senator

Edward Markey

Democrat - Massachusetts

PARTY: Democrat

ELECTED: 2013 (special election)

EDUCATION: Boston College; Boston College Law School (JD)

OCCUPATION: Ice cream truck driver; Salesperson

BORN: 07/11/46

*Candidates running for office for the first time will have no voting record.

“Anti-semitism will never be tolerated by me, never be tolerated by this body, and no member of Congress should be making anti-semitic statements.” - Sen. Edward Markey

POLITICAL CAREER

  • Elected Representative of Massachusetts's 7th Congressional District in 1976


COMMITTEES SERVED ON

  • Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

  • Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

  • Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship


INTERESTING FACTS

  • The longest-serving Democrat in Congress

233d 11h 39m 16s until Election Day '26

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