Sheldon Whitehouse
| Sheldon Whitehouse | |
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United States Senator from Rhode Island |
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Assumed office January 3, 2007 Serving with Jack Reed |
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| Preceded by | Lincoln Chafee |
| 71st Attorney General of Rhode Island | |
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In office January 2, 1999 – January 7, 2003 |
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| Governor | Lincoln Almond |
| Preceded by | Jeffery Pine |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Lynch |
| United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island | |
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In office January 20, 1993 – June 8, 1998 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Lincoln Almond |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Curran |
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October 20, 1955 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Sandra Thornton (1986–present) |
| Children | 2 |
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Yale University (BA) University of Virginia (JD) |
| Website | Senate website |
Sheldon T. Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party and previously served as a United States Attorney from 1993 to 1998 and as the Attorney General of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2003.
Whitehouse was born in New York City, New York, the son of Mary Celine (née Rand) and career diplomat Charles Sheldon Whitehouse, and grandson of diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse. He graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and from Yale University in 1978. He received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1982.
Whitehouse worked as a clerk for Judge Richard F. Neely of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia from 1982 to 1983. He also worked in the Rhode Island Attorney General's office as a special assistant attorney general from 1985 to 1990, chief of the Regulatory Unit (which oversaw utilities) from 1988 to 1990, and also an assistant attorney general from 1989 to 1990.
Whitehouse worked as Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun's Executive Counsel beginning in 1991, and was later tapped to serve as Director of Policy. He oversaw the state's response to the Rhode Island Share and Deposit Indemnity Corporation (RISDIC) banking crisis, which took place right after Sundlun took office. Whitehouse was appointed by Sundlun to be the state's Director of Business Regulation in 1992, where he oversaw a drastic reform in the state's workers' compensation insurance system.
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