Amy Klobuchar

Amy Jean Klobuchar ( born May 25, 1960 in Plymouth, Minnesota) is an American politician and member of the Minnesota Democratic - Farmer-Labor Party. Since 2007 she is a member of the Senate of the United States.

Amy Klobuchar was the daughter of journalist and author Jim Klobuchar and the teacher Rose Katherine Heuberger in Plymouth (Minnesota). After graduating high school, she studied political science at Yale University. In 1982, she received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude and earned 1985 at the University of Chicago Law School, her JD She then worked for several law firms and as a consultant for the former Vice President Walter Mondale. In 1998 she was elected district attorney of Hennepin County; this office she held until 2006.

After Democratic Senator Mark Dayton announced early in 2005, not wanting to run again, Klobuchar was considered a favorite for the succession. On September 29, 2005, she gave up her candidacy and was able to prevail in the internal party Trials. In the Senate elections on 7 November 2006 Klobuchar received 58 percent of the vote and was on 3 January 2007 Senator in the 110th Congress of the United States. This made her the first elected senator in Minnesota.

Klobuchar represents liberal views and calls for an expansion of social services and health insurance. It supports the possibility of an abortion ( pro-choice ) and the strengthening of the rights of LGBT people. They criticized the Iraq war and voted in January 2007 against Bush's plans to increase the number of troops in Iraq.