This man should run for president one day - I really like him!

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43. I was familiar with his name

but didn't know that much about him.

His background, per Wikipedia:

Booker was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the predominantly white, affluent town of Harrington Park in Bergen County, New Jersey.[1] His parents, Cary Alfred and Caroly Rose (Jordan) Booker, were among the first black executives at IBM.[2][3] One of Booker's maternal great-grandfathers was Caucasian, and Booker also has African-American and Native American ancestry.[3][4][5] Booker is an alumnus of Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, where he was a 1986 USA Today All-American football player.[6] Booker then studied at Stanford University, receiving a B.A. in political science in 1991 and an M.A. in sociology the following year. He played varsity football[7] ; he made the All–Pacific Ten Academic team — and was elected Senior Class President in the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU)[8]. In addition, he ran The Bridge, a student-run crisis hotline and organized help for youth in East Palo Alto, from Stanford students.[9] While at Stanford, Booker also became good friends with Rachel Maddow.

Booker received a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he was awarded an honours degree in modern history in 1994. While at Oxford, he became friends with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of the local chapter of Chabad and brought together a diverse community.

Booker obtained a J.D. in 1997 from Yale Law School, where he operated free legal clinics for low-income residents of New Haven. At Yale, he became friends with Rabbi Shmully Hecht, with whom he jointly founded the Chai Society (now the Eliezer Society).[10] He was also a Big Brother and was active in the Black Law Students Association. Booker lived in Newark during his final year at Yale and after graduation served as Staff Attorney for the Urban Justice Center in New York and Program Coordinator of the Newark Youth Project.

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That is an amazing resume. Clearly a man destined for bigger and better things.