Originally sworn in on January 5, 2011, Richard Blumenthal is serving his second term as a United States Senator from the State of Connecticut.
With a father who fled Nazi Germany at age 18, and a mother who left Nebraska’s farmland to become a social worker, Richard Blumenthal was raised with a deep dedication to public service, a duty to give back by helping others, and a bedrock belief in hard work.
Those values carried him through his childhood and his education at Harvard College (Editorial Chairman The Harvard Crimson, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude), and Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. To a year working as assistant to Daniel Patrick Moynihan when he was Assistant to the President of the United States. And to enlisting in the United States Marine Corps Reserves in 1970. He was honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant in 1976.
Senator Blumenthal is committed to enacting commonsense gun violence prevention measures that will save lives and honor with action those whose lives were taken by gun violence. Senator Blumenthal has led—and continues to lead—the charge to close glaring loopholes in federal law that allow dangerous individuals to purchase and own firearms. He also is fighting against deadly and untraceable ghost guns, and working to hold the corrupt gun lobby accountable. Senator Blumenthal will never stop pushing for commonsense gun violence prevention measures because he believes that enough is enough.