Cory Booker

Cory Booker interests me because his resume could have excused him from ever doing hard things, and he chose them anyway. Stanford and a Rhodes Scholarship usually lead to a corner office, not to the Newark city council and the mayor's office of a struggling city. Whatever you make of his politics, the through-line is consistent: he bets on proximity, living where the problems are rather than theorizing about them from a distance. As New Jersey's first African-American senator he carries symbolic weight, but I find those street-level instincts more telling than the symbolism. American politics rewards performers; Booker, at his best, is a practitioner.

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Name (English)

Cory Booker

Name (Japanese)

コリー・ブッカー

Reading

こりー・ぶっかー

Born

April 27, 1969 (age 57)

Origin

Washington, D.C., United States

Occupation

politician / lawyer / jurist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rooster

High school

Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan

University

Stanford University

Awards & achievements

• 1992 Rhodes Scholarship

• Official sitehttp://www.booker.senate.gov
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/corybooker/
• Xhttps://x.com/CoryBooker
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory%20Booker
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1135767

Tags

• politician
• lawyer
• jurist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.