Michael Bennet

Michael Farrand Bennet ( born November 28, 1964 in New Delhi, India) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represents the state of Colorado since his appointment by Governor Bill Ritter on 21 January 2009 in the U.S. Senate, where he became the successor of the Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar appointed.

Life

Douglas J. Bennet Bennet's father worked at the time of the birth of his son as an advisor to the then U.S. ambassador to India, Chester B. Bowles, and therefore lived with his wife Susanne in India. Later Bennet Sr. was a consultant on the staff of the U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.

Michael Bennet, who has a brother and a sister who grew up in the United States, primarily in Washington, DC, where he was graduated from the private school St. Albans School. Even as a teenager, Bennet was interested in politics when he worked as an errand boy in Congress during the holidays. Bennet attended Wesleyan University and earned a bachelor's degree in history there. He then studied at Yale University, where he received his degree in law.

Bennet's political career began in the reign of U.S. President Bill Clinton, when the then nearly 30 -year-old Bennet was appointed adviser to Vice - Minister of Justice Philip Heymann. Under Jamie Gorelick and Eric Holder, he continued this activity. Also Bennet's father Douglas worked at this time as Assistant Secretary of State for International Relations at the White House.

In October 1997, Bennet married the prosecutor Susan Daggett. With her and her three daughters in 2001 they moved to Denver. Here he found work as chief of staff in the team of the mayor of Denver, John Hickenlooper. This appointed him in June 2005 for the school inspector and head of the school district of Denver.

In January 2009, Governor Bill Ritter appointed Bennet to succeed Ken Salazar to Democratic U.S. Senator in his home state of Colorado. A representation of Salazar was necessary, since this had been appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama as the new U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Prior to the 2010 Senate elections Bennet's nomination by his party was uncertain, as he learned with Andrew Romanoff, the former speaker of the House of Representatives from Colorado, met a serious competitor, the support of former President Bill Clinton. Ultimately Bennet won surprisingly clear with 54:46 percent of the vote and met at the election in November 2010 to the Republican Ken Buck, a prosecutor from Weld County. He won the election in a tight head-to -head race against Buck ( Bennet: 47.7 % / Buck: 46.8 %).