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My Take
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.
Overview
Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician and lawyer serving as a United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey. He 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.
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1. Profile
- 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)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Rooster
- Origin
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- politician / lawyer / jurist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan
- University
- Stanford University
Awards & achievements
- 1992 Rhodes Scholarship
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.