Cory Booker
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Raised in Harrington Park, New Jersey after a Washington, D.C. birth, Booker earned a BA and MA at Stanford, a Rhodes Scholarship to study history at Oxford, and a JD from Yale Law School. His early political breakthrough came with a 1998 municipal council win in Newark, where a hunger strike highlighted urban-development concerns. After an unsuccessful 2002 mayoral bid, he captured the mayoralty…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources