Martin Heinrich

Martin T. Heinrich ( born October 17, 1971 in Fallon, Nevada) is an American politician. From 3 January 2009 to January 3, 2013, he was the first electoral district of the state of New Mexico in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since January 3, 2013, sits on New Mexico in the U.S. Senate.

Early years

Martin Heinrich attended until 1995, the University of Missouri in Columbia. He then studied between 2001 and 2002, the engineering at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. After that, he was CEO of Cottonwood Gulch Foundation, a non- profit -making foundation on with the aim to make the youth aware of the nature and the environment. In addition, Henry started his own consulting firm.

Political career

Henry is a member of the Democratic Party. Between 2003 and 2007 he was a member of the City Council of Albuquerque. He campaigned for an increase in the minimum wage, the creation of new jobs and the use of alternative energies such as wind and solar power. In 2006 he was chairman of the city council. In the midterm elections of 2008, Heinrich sat through for the Democrats with 55 percent of the vote to Republican Darren White and sparked Heather Wilson from the U.S. House of Representatives, who had unsuccessfully applied for the U.S. Senate. Henry's election victory matched the national trend in favor of the Democrats, which culminated in Barack Obama's election as president. As of 2009, Martin Heinrich was a deputy in Congress and was re-elected in 2010. He was a member of the Armed Services Committee and the Committee for the management of natural resources ( Committee on Natural Resources ).

After the long-standing U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman had announced not to run again in 2012, Henry was in the spring of 2011, to apply for Bingamans successor in the U.S. Senate. In the election on November 6, 2012, he was able to prevail against his Republican predecessor in the House of Representatives Heather Wilson and became effective on January 3, 2013 at his new office.

With his wife Julie Martin Heinrich has two children. He lives in Albuquerque.

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