Richard Blumenthal
Richard Blumenthal ( born February 13, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. Since January 2011 he is sitting for the state of Connecticut in the U.S. Senate.
Life
The parents of Jane Blumenthal were Rosenstock and Martin A. Blumenthal, who had immigrated as Jewish immigrants from Germany. He studied for his schooling at Harvard College and at Trinity College, Cambridge and Yale Law School Law. After studying Blumenthal served six years in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. From 1977 to 1981 he was United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. He then worked as a lawyer in the law firm of Cummings & Lockwood.
From 1984 to 1987, Blumenthal MP in the House of Representatives from Connecticut. From 1987 to 1991 he was the successor of Anthony D. Truglia Senator in the Senate of Connecticut, he was succeeded by George Jepsen. From 1991 to 2010, Blumenthal Attorney General of the State of Connecticut.
On November 2, 2010 Blumenthal was elected to succeed his party colleague, the incumbent Chris Dodd, who did not compete for re-election as Senator in the Senate of the United States, where he prevailed over Republican Linda McMahon the.
In July 2013 following the NSA Enthüllugen by Ed Snowden Blumenthal said: "The revelations about the size, the extent and width this monitoring, the metadata and profound actions, monitoring of social media sites were actually for me revelations. "
Blumenthal lives with his family in Stamford, Connecticut.