Tim Kaine
Timothy Michael Kaine ( born February 26, 1958 in Saint Paul, Minnesota ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party and was from 2006 to 2010 governor of the U.S. state of Virginia. He led from 2009 to 2011 the chair of the Democratic National Committee, the party organization of the Democrats. Since January 3, 2013, representing the state of Virginia in the U.S. Senate.
Career
Tim Kaine has studied at the University of Missouri and Harvard Law School law. Before joining as a lawyer in a law firm, he worked for a year with Catholic missionaries in Honduras. His political career began when he was elected to the city council of Richmond. There he rose to the office of mayor of the city where he made a name for itself Exile by the so-called Project, through which the number of shootings in Richmond could be reduced by about 40%.
2001 Tim Kaine was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. This office also includes the chair of the Senate of Virginia. In November 2005, Kaine finally successfully ran for the governorship of Virginia. The inauguration took place on 14 January 2006 not in Richmond, the capital of Virginia, instead of, but in the museum city of Williamsburg. He was - since Thomas Jefferson in 1779 - the first governor of Virginia, whose inauguration in the former colonial capital rather than in the actual capital has been carried out. The reason for this peculiarity is that in the official residence of the governor, the Capitol in Richmond, renovations took place. As the Constitution of Virginia does not allow two consecutive terms of office of a governor, he could not run again in the gubernatorial elections in 2009.
Kaine was a potential vice presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama in an interview. He was one of the first high-level politicians who supported Obama's presidential candidacy. As popular in Virginia politician he could have helped Obama to win this election may be decisive U.S. state. Obama was able to win the state of Virginia but still. After his election as U.S. President Obama Governor Kaine proposed before as the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee. On 21 January 2009 he sparked in this office then Howard Dean from.
On April 5, 2011 Kaine announced that he would apply for the succession of not more candidates Democratic U.S. Senator Jim Webb at the polls in November 2012. Coinciding with the announcement of his candidacy Kaine declared his resignation as Chairman of the Democrats. His deputy, Donna Brazile took a month as acting out his duties before the Debbie Wasserman Schultz Congressman from Florida was appointed by President Obama as his successor. Kaine achieved his party's nomination, and sat at the Senate election itself against Republican George Allen by one of his predecessors as governor of Virginia. He reached 53 percent of the vote.
Kaine is married to the former Richmonder Youth Justice Anne Holton and has three children.