Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse ( born October 20, 1955 in New York City ) is an American politician (Democratic Party). Since 2007 he has been a representative of the State of Rhode Iceland to the U.S. Senate.

Life

Sheldon Whitehouse, whose father Charles S. Whitehouse was the United States Ambassador in Laos and Thailand, attended St. Paul 's School in Concord, New Hampshire, a private boarding school. He studied at Yale University ( completion 1978) and the University of Virginia School of Law, where in 1982 he earned the degree of Juris Doctor. He is married to the marine biologist Sandra Thornton Whitehouse since 1986. The couple has two children.

Professional and political career

White House from 1982 to 1983 Employees of a judge at the State of West Virginia Supreme Court. From 1983 to 1990 he held various activities of the Attorney General of Rhode Iceland office. Since 1991 he worked for the then Governor of Rhode Iceland, Bruce Sundlun, active, in 1992 appointed him director of the Rhode Iceland Department of Business Regulation. 1994 appointed U.S. President Bill Clinton White House to the Federal Attorney for Rhode Iceland. He was elected in 1998 to the Attorney General of the State of Rhode Iceland and held that post from 1999 to 2003. In 2002, he competed unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for governor in Rhode Iceland, which went to State Senator Myrth York by a narrow margin. She lost the election itself then against Republican Donald Carcieri.

White House candidate, 2006 in Rhode Iceland successfully for the U.S. Senate. As the Democratic candidate, he defeated the incumbent Lincoln Chafee, who resigned a short time later from the Republican Party and 2011 non-party governor of the state was. In the Senate, White House belongs to, among others, the Justice Committee and the Budget Committee.

Political positions

Sheldon Whitehouse supports the right to abortion ( pro-choice ) and marriages of same-sex partners. He advocates for government funding of embryonic stem cell research. The death penalty he advocates at the federal level, but not in the individual states and not for underage offenders.