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Alejandro "Alex" Padilla (born March 22, 1973) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from California, a seat he has held since 2021.A member of the Democratic Party, Padilla served as the 30th secretary of state of California from 2015 to 2021 and was a member of the California State Senate and the Los Angeles City Council.
In conjunction with figures derived from the Pew Research Center's 2021 "survey of the religious composition of the United States", [2] [165] the most basic breakdown of the above data indicates that 84% of the Senate identify as Christian (compared with 62% of the population), 9% identify as Jewish (compared with 2% of the population), 4% have ...
There have been two Catholic President of the United States, John F. Kennedy and Joe Biden and two Vice Presidents of the United States, Joe Biden and JD Vance; however, Mike Pence was raised Catholic, but later described himself as an Evangelical Catholic. [89] First Lady Melania Trump was the first Catholic to live in the White House since ...
Pope Francis on Monday tapped Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego to become the archbishop of Washington, D.C., selecting one of his most progressive allies to head the Catholic Church in the U.S ...
Bernadine Craft - Former Member of Wyoming House of Representatives and Wyoming’s State Senate. John Danforth – former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican United States Senator from Missouri; ordained Episcopal priest; Kim Jackson - Democratic Georgia State Senator. First openly out LGBT state senator in ...
At least one woman has represented California in the U.S. Senate for the last three decades. That streak may come to an end after the 2024 Senate election.
California elects United States senators to class 1 and class 3. The state has been represented by 48 people in the Senate since it was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850. Its U.S. senators are Democrats Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. Dianne Feinstein was the state's longest serving senator, who served from 1992 until her death in 2023.
The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon California's admission to the Union in 1850, the state was assigned a Class 1 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1849.