Michael Bennet is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 28, 1964 in New Delhi, Delhi, India. He was a senator alongside Colorado Senator He served in the Senate alongside fellow Colorado Senator Mark Udall..
Michael Farrand Bennet (born November 28, 1964) is an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who has served as the senior United States Senator from Colorado since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was appointed to the seat when Senator Ken Salazar became Secretary of the Interior. Bennet previously worked as a managing director for the Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, and Superintendent of Denver Public Schools.
Bennet’s father ran the United States Agency for International Development under President Jimmy Carter, served as President and CEO of National Public Radio (1983–93), and Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs in the Clinton Administration (1993–95). His grandfather Douglas Bennet was an economic adviser in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration. Bennet’s mother is a retired elementary school librarian.
Douglas J. Bennet was his father and was a former State Department official. He was also a college president and was an aide to Chester Bowles when he was U.S. ambassador in India.
Time magazine named him as one of the nation’s top eleven educational activists in 2011. He was also one of President Barack Obama’s early advisors on education issues.
Bennet was born in New Delhi, India, the son of Susanne Christine (née Klejman) and Douglas J. Bennet. His father, who was born in New Jersey, served as an aide to Chester Bowles, then the U.S. ambassador to India. Bennet’s father was Christian. Bennet’s mother is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who was born in 1938 in Warsaw, Poland and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1950. Her parents survived imprisonment in the Warsaw Ghetto.
