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Jim Himes

Jim Himes
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Connecticut's 4th district
Assumed office
January 3, 2009
Preceded by Chris Shays
Personal details
Born James Andrew Himes
(1966-07-05) July 5, 1966 (age 50)
Lima, Peru
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Mary Scott
Residence Cos Cob, Connecticut
Education Harvard University (BA)
St Edmund Hall, Oxford (MPhil)
Website House website

James Andrew "Jim" Himes (born July 5, 1966) is an American businessman and U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district, serving since 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party and Chairman of the New Democrat Coalition.

The Fourth Congressional District incorporates portions of Fairfield and New Haven counties in southwestern Connecticut, including the cities of Bridgeport, New Canaan and Stamford.

Himes was born July 5, 1966 in Lima, Peru, to American parents, where his father worked for the Ford Foundation.

His father, James R. Himes, also worked for UNICEF, being the director of the Unicef Innocenti Center, a research institute on child development in Florence, Italy.

His mother, Judith A. Himes, was until recent years the director of board activities for the New Jersey Board of Higher Education in Trenton.

He spent his early childhood in Lima and Bogotá, Colombia. After the divorce of his parents, Jim, his mother, and his two sisters moved to Pennington, New Jersey, where Himes attended and graduated from Hopewell Valley Central High School.


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