Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician, attorney, and author who has served as the junior United States senator from New Jersey since 2013.
Cory Booker is a member of the Democratic Party, and is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey.
Cory Booker was the 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, and served on the Municipal Council of Newark for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002.
Cory Booker attended Stanford University, receiving a BA in 1991 and a master’s degree a year later. Cory Booker attended Queen’s College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship before attending Yale Law School.
Cory Booker won an upset victory for a seat on the Municipal Council of Newark in 1998, staging a 10-day hunger strike and briefly living in a tent to draw attention to urban development issues in the city.
Cory Booker ran for mayor in 2002 but lost to incumbent Sharpe James. Cory Booker ran again in 2006 and defeated Deputy Mayor Ronald Rice. Cory Booker’s first term saw the doubling of affordable housing under development and the reduction of the city budget deficit from $180 million to $73 million. Cory Booker was reelected in 2010 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in a 2013 special election and reelected in 2014 and in 2020.
Throughout his Senate tenure, Cory Booker has written, sponsored, and passed legislation advancing women’s rights, affirmative action, same-sex marriage, and single-payer healthcare and has pushed for economic reforms to address wealth inequality in the U.S., particularly the racial wealth gap.
Cory Booker is married to Rosario Dawson.
Who Is Senator Cory Booker’s Wife Rosario Dawson?
Rosario Isabel Dawson is an American actress and producer who made her feature-film debut in the 1995 independent drama Kids.
Rosario Dawson is also known for having several roles in comic-book adaptations, which include; Gail in Sin City (2005) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), Claire Temple in five of the Marvel/Netflix series (2015–2018), and providing the voices of Diana Prince/Wonder Woman in the DC Animated Movie Universe and Space Jam: A New Legacy and Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in The Lego Batman Movie.
In 2020, Rosario Dawson portrayed Ahsoka Tano in the second season of The Mandalorian, and is set to star in the upcoming Disney+ original series Ahsoka.
In 2021, Rosario Dawson has a recurring role in the Dwayne Johnson autobiographical comedy series Young Rock and in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick.
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