PERSON: Ed Markey

Senator

Edward John Markey (born July 11, 1946) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district from 1976 to 2013. Between the House and Senate, Markey has served in Congress for more than four decades. He was also a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976. He is running for reelection in 2020.<br> <br> Markey is a progressive who has focused on climate change and energy policy and was Chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming from 2007 to 2011. Markey is the Senate author of the Green New Deal.[1] In 2013, after John Kerry was appointed United States Secretary of State, he was elected to serve out the balance of Kerry’s sixth Senate term in a 2013 special election. Markey defeated Stephen Lynch in the Democratic primary and Republican Gabriel E. Gomez in the general election. In 2014, Markey was elected to a full term in the Senate. He is the dean of the Massachusetts congressional delegation.