Cory Booker
New Jersey Senator
Cory Booker was raised in Harrington Park, New Jersey. After graduating from Stanford University and Yale Law School, he moved to Newark—where he still lives to this day—and started a nonprofit organization to provide legal services for low-income families and help tenants take on slumlords. He was elected to the Newark City Council and, starting in 2006, Booker proudly served as Newark’s mayor for more than seven years. In 2013, Booker won a special election to represent New Jersey in the United States Senate. As New Jersey’s junior Senator, Cory Booker has brought an innovative and bipartisan approach to tackling some of the most difficult problems facing New Jersey and our country.