Cory Booker Net Worth, Age, Height, News, Family And More

Cory Booker is an American politician who is a member of the Democratic Party and currently serving as the senior United States Senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013.

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Politician Booker was born on 27 April 1969 in Washington, D.C. United States. He is 56 years old as of 2025, and his zodiac sign is Taurus.

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• Cory Booker was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Harrington Park, New Jersey.
• His parents, Carolyn Rose and Cary Alfred Booker, were among the first black IBM executives.
• He was raised in a religious household, and his family attended a small African Methodist Episcopal Church in New Jersey.
• Booker has Sierra Leonean ancestry, which he learned when he was featured on the PBS television program Finding Your Roots.
• He graduated from Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan.
• At his school, he played varsity football and was named to the 1986 USA Today All-USA High School football team.
• He graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1991 and a Master of Arts in Sociology in 1992.
• He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the Queen’s College, Oxford, earning a degree in United States history in 1994.
• He obtained his Juris Doctor in 1997 from Yale Law School.
• He was also a big brother with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and active in the National Black Law Students Association.
• After graduating from Law School, Booker served as a staff attorney for the Unban Justice Center.
• In 1998, Booker won an upset victory for a seat on the Municipal Council of Newark.
• In 2002, he announced his campaign for mayor of Newark rather than running for reelection as councilman.
• In 2006, Booker announced that he would run for mayor again and won the election with 72% vote.
• October 10, 2010, Booker established Let’s Move! Newark as part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s national Let’s Move! Initiative against childhood obesity.
• Booker was the first African-American to be elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004.
• He resigned as mayor of Newark on October 30, 2013 and on 31 October 2013, was sworn in as the Junior U.S. senator from New Jersey.
• He is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey.
• Booker regularly exercises and has been a vegetarian since 1992, when he was a student at Oxford University.
• Booker speaks Spanish; he attended a Spanish immersion program in Ecuador.

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