Senator Cory Booker was born to two civil rights activists Cary and Carolyn Booker on April 27, 1969 in Washington D.C. Senator Booker was raised in an affluent white neighborhood in New Jersey. Both of Sen. Booker’s parents were among the first African American executives at International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Sen. Booker has stated in multiple interviews that his family was able to buy their family home because of housing right activist. (Booker Senate)
Sen. Booker attended Stanford University and received a bachelor’s degree in political science. Following graduation, he enrolled back into Stanford where he received his master’s degree in sociology. Sen. Booker was awarded one of the Rhodes Scholarship. This scholarship allowed Sen. Booker the ability to participate in the study abroad at the University of Oxford. Sen. Booker received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. (Booker Senate)
During Sen. Booker’s years at Stanford, he participated in several activates such as, football, senior class president, and worked with a student based crisis hotline. While at Yale Sen. Booker worked in a free legal clinic for low income residents. Sen. Booker was a founding member of society called Eliezer. Eliezer is a society that helps bring together different branches of Judaism. Other activities were National Black Law Student Association and Big Brother Big Sister organization. (Booker Senate)
Sen. Booker’s became involved with politics by running for Newark City Council. Sen. Booker defeated Councilman George Branch, who was had served four terms. Sen. Booker experienced a testing election early in his political career. When Sen. Booker was a city councilman. During his reelection campaign in 2002 Counci...
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...ey League’s New Jersey team is the New Jersey Devils. The Devils home arena is located in Newark.
Since New Jersey sits on the east coast of the US, the maritime and ports restrictions and laws are important to New Jersey. With Sen. Booker serving on this committee, it helps with the port authority and cruise liners that set sail from New Jersey. The other restrictions can also help the famous Jersey Shore and Atlantic Board Walk. Having restrictions and oversight of testing for toxins found in the water helps New Jersey keep their tourism up and bring more money into New Jersey.
The second committee Sen. Booker serves on is the Small Business and Entrepreneurship. This committee oversees all aspects of small businesses. Sen. Booker has held forums for small business and continues to hold meeting to get input and find out what issues need to be addressed.
...one growing up in “Down Jersey”, along with anyone with an interest in ties between politics and corruption, this is a book that will capture your interest. One final thought, the very thing that started the development, fall and now rise of Atlantic City are all the same, gambling and making fast money. I guess if you legalize it, becomes acceptable.
degree from Yale. He has spent a great deal of his life abroad, first in
W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T Washington had very different views about their culture and country. Du Bois, being born in the North and studying in Europe, was fascinated with the idea of Socialism and Communism. Booker T Washington, on the other hand, was born in the South, and like so many others, had a Black mother and a White father. Thus being born half-white, his views and ideas were sometimes not in the best interest of his people.
Growing up an African-American in the early 1900s, James Baldwin didn’t have it easy. James Baldwin was born in New York City on August 2, 1924 (Magill 101). Baldwin’s dad made his childhood harder than it already was. His father constantly criticized and teased
Gillespie, Andra. The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-racial America. New York: New York UP, 2012. Print.
Roger F. Wicker was elected to the United States Senate on November 4, 2008, and currently serves with Senator Thad Cochran representing the state of Mississippi (www.senate.gov). Each state always has two senators in the Senate regardless of its population size. Since there are fifty states that means there are one hundred senators currently serving in the Senate. Out of the one hundred senators, one-third of them come up for election every two years, because the terms are staggered. The interesting fact about the Senate seats is that senators who seek re-election usually win with a ninety percent success rate (www.wikipedia.com). The United States Senate has the responsibility to advise and consent to the President's government appointments, it must ratify all treaties with foreign governments, it tries all impeachments, and elects the Vice President in the event that no one gets a majority of the electoral votes in an election. Senators are elected to represent the state from which they are elected. They are assigned to serve on committees and review bills or proposed laws. Senator Wicker currently serves on five committees. Most of Senator Wicker’s policies that he sponsors centers on creating jobs, reducing spending, limiting federal overreach, and maintaining a strong nation...
He currently serves as a senior member on the Appropriations Committee. He is also serving as the Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee, and Chairman of the Labor, Health & Human Services and Education Subcommittee. Porter has been a strong supporter of the Clean Air and Clean Water Act and since 1993 has served as the Vice-Chairman of the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBEUSA). In addition, Porter is co-founder of the Congressional Coalition on Population and Development. Porter is also a strong supporter of the arts and humanities and was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1999. Porter is one of only five House members to ever receive this honor. It is clear that Porter’s career in politics has been a success.
Shugart, Matthew. "Elections: The American Process of Selecting a President: A Comparative Perspective." Presidential Studies, 34, 3 (September 2004): 632-656.
Booker Taliaferro Washington was born a slave on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Va. His mother, Jane Burroughs, was a plantation cook. His father was an unknown white man. As a child, Booker swept yards and brought water to slaves working in the fields. Freed after the American Civil War, he went with his mother to Malden, W. Va., to join Washington Ferguson, whom she had married during the war.
Before moving to New Jersey, in the 1880’s there was a lull in active participation...
Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii. He is of mixed parentage: his father, a black African born in Kenya, while his mother, a white American that came from Kansas. When he was six years old his parents divorced and his mother married an Indonesian oil manager. They moved to Indonesia where Obama was educated in a Roman Catholic School. He then returned back to Hawaii to continue school while living with his grandparents. Barack struggled with his own racial identity in his late teens. (Funk & Wagnalls)
Lawrence was a very well educated man, but he did not have the best education until he was in college. He started college at Virginia Union University, an all-black school, where in 1951 he received a degree in chemistry and in science. After graduating he started working as a toxicologist in the medical examiner's office. In 1952, he was drafted into the army and served in the Korean War where he earned the Bronze Star for heroism in combat for ...
At 22, after two-thirds of a year at Berea College in West Virginia, he returned to the coalmines and studied Latin and Greek between trips to the mineshafts. He then went on to the University of Chicago, where he received bachelors and master's degrees, and Harvard University, where he became the second black to receive a doctorate in history.
In 6 short years, Johnson evolved from a newly elected senator to the most powerful man in the Senate. (Unger, 180) This swift ascension was unprecedented and mesmerizing and Johnson's path there is arguable as important as his presidency. Both books use Johnson's qu...
started public school at the age of 5. He was baptized on May of 1936, but the event left little to no impression on him. In his teen years, he attended Booker T. Washington High School, where he was said to be a precocious student. He skipped through both 9th and 11th grade, and entered Morehouse College at the age of 15. He was a popular student, especially with his female classmates, but was an unmotivated student who floated through his first two years.