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U.S. Senator

Jeff Merkley

Democrat - Oregon

PARTY: Democrat

ELECTED: 2008

EDUCATION: Stanford University; Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School

OCCUPATION: Executive director of Portland Habitat

BORN: 10/24/56

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

“Climate change is the biggest threat that humanity has ever faced.” - Sen. Jeff Merkley

POLITICAL CAREER

  • Elected to Oregon’s House of Representatives in 1998


COMMITTEES SERVED ON

  • Senate Committee on Appropriations

  • Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

  • Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

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

  • Senate Special Committee on Aging


INTERESTING FACTS

  • The first in his family to attend college

240d 20h 20m 52s until Election Day '26

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