- Democrat U.S. senator from Colorado, 21 January 2009-present. Appointed 21 January 2009, to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ken Salazar (Salazar was appointed secretary of the interior); took the oath of office on January 22, 2009; elected to a full U.S. Senate term in 2010.
- At the time of his birth, his father was an aide to the U.S. ambassador to India.
- Received Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University, 1987.
- Received law degree from Yale Law School, 1993; editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.
- Superintendent of Denver Public Schools, 2005-2009.
- Michael's father was a Mayflower descendant, of mostly English and some Irish ancestry. Michael's mother is a Polish Jewish emigrant. She and her parents survived the Holocaust during World War II, and came to the U.S. in 1950.
- Son of Susanne Christine (Klejman) and Douglas Joseph Bennet, Jr. His father ran the U.S. Agency for International Development, from 1979 to 1981, was President and CEO of NPR, from 1983 to 1993, and was President of Wesleyan University, from 1995 to 2007.
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