Amy Klobuchar
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United States Senator from Minnesota |
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Assumed office January 3, 2007 Serving with Al Franken |
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| Preceded by | Mark Dayton |
| Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee | |
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Assumed office January 3, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Chuck Schumer |
| County Attorney of Hennepin County | |
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In office January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Freeman |
| Succeeded by | Michael Freeman |
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Amy Jean Klobuchar May 25, 1960 Plymouth, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | John Bessler (1993–present) |
| Children | 1 daughter |
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Yale University (BA) University of Chicago (JD) |
| Website | Senate website |
Amy Jean Klobuchar (/ˈkloʊbəʃɑːr/; born May 25, 1960) is the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party. She is the first woman to be elected as a senator for Minnesota and is one of twenty women serving in the current United States Senate.
She previously served as the county attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, the most populous county in Minnesota. She was a legal adviser to former Vice President Walter Mondale. She has been named by The New York Times and The New Yorker as one of the women most likely to become the first female President of the United States, and by MSNBC and The New Yorker as a possible nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is the daughter of Rose Katherine (née Heuberger), who retired at age 70 from teaching second grade, and James John "Jim" Klobuchar, an author and a retired sportswriter and columnist for the Star Tribune. Jim's grandparents were Slovene immigrants, and his father was a miner on the Iron Range; Amy's maternal grandparents were from Switzerland.
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