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Birthday: 12/09/1966

Religion: Roman Catholic

A Representative and Senator from New York; born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., December 9, 1966; A.B., Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1988; J.D., University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif., 1991; lawyer, private practice; special council, United States Housing and Urban Development; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred and Tenth Congress and to the succeeding Congress, and served from January 3, 2007 to January 26, 2009, when she resigned to become a U.S. Senator; appointed January 23, 2009, to the United States Senate for the term ending January 3, 2013, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hillary Clinton; took the oath of office on January 27, 2009.