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Senator-elect Mark Warner (AP)
Mark Warner (D), 53, is the new Senator from Virginia. He takes the seat of retiring Republican John Warner (no relation). Mark Warner, a former governor of Virginia during 2002 – 2006, won 64 percent of the votes in his race for the Senate against Jim Gilmore (R), another former governor of Virginia. Warner joins fellow Democrat Jim Web in the U.S. Senate, making it the first time Virginia will have two Democratic senators since 1970.
Mark Warner was an exceedingly popular governor of Virginia and is credited for a large part of the resurgence of the Democratic Party in the state.
Warner is a native of Connecticut, but became a Virginian after attending George Washington University in Washington, DC, where he majored in political science. Warner earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in1980. While at GW, Warner worked on Washington, DC’s Capitol Hill for U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd, Democrat from Connecticut; and in the early 1980s, Warner served as a staff member to Senator Dodd. Warner has never practiced law, but has accumulated considerable wealth using his knowledge of federal telecommunication law and policies as a broker of mobile phone franchise licenses.
Warner served as the Chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia, 1993-1994, and Chair of the National Governors Association, 2004-2005. Early on, Warner briefly sought the Democratic presidential nomination but dropped out to pursue the U.S. Senate seat. He was also reputedly on Barrack Obama’s list of possible vice presidential nominees, but took himself out of the running for that post if indeed he was ever seriously being considered. Warner delivered the keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Mark Warner is considered a centrist Democrat.
For more info:
- Mark Warner for U.S. Senate official campaign website
- Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
- Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
- Issue positions and quotes at On The Issues
- Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
- Forward Together PAC
- Follow the Money - Mark R Warner 2001 campaign contributions
- Candidate Bio and Info at votimus.com
- Mark Warner at the Open Directory Project
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