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Jeff Merkley

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Jeffrey Alan Merkley (born October 24, 1956) is an American politician who is the junior United States senator from Oregon. He was first elected to the Senate in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 1999 to 2009 as the representative for the 47th district in the Oregon House of Representatives, which covers central Multnomah County on the eastern side of Portland, Oregon; he was the speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives during the last two years of his tenure. Merkley defeated two-term Republican incumbent U.S. Senator Gordon Smith in 2008 and was reelected in 2014 and 2020, defeating Republican nominees Monica Wehby and Jo Rae Perkins. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2024). Jeff Merkley is the 17,906th most popular politician (up from 18,267th in 2024), the 13,358th most popular biography from United States (up from 14,757th in 2019) and the 1,017th most popular American Politician.

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Among politicians, Jeff Merkley ranks 17,909 out of 19,576. Before him are Gilberto Kassab, Joseph Story, Edith Cowan, Hervé Morin, Alfredo Lim, Martin Sonneborn, İsmet Yılmaz, Raffaele Lombardo, and Hirofumi Yoshimura. After him are Jim Gilmore, Oliver Wolcott, and Frank Murphy.

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Among people born in 1956, Jeff Merkley ranks 649. Before him are Ambiga Sreenevasan, Soraya Post, Manuel Jiménez, Nick Fry, Robby Benson, and Adrian Dantley. After him are Anatoly Beloglazov, Reinhold Hintermaier, Guy Maddin, Alfredo Tena, Betty Ong, and Lubomír Zaorálek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeff Merkley ranks 13,364 out of 20,380. Before him are Bob Boozer (1937), James Truslow Adams (1878), William R. Moses (1959), Gene Fullmer (1931), Greg Howe (1963), Arlene Francis (1907), Patrika Darbo (1948), and Bernie Worrell (1944). After him are Rob Riggle (1970), Alphonse Lacroix (1897), Richelle Mead (1976), and Nick Cannon (1980).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Jeff Merkley ranks 1,017. Before him are Olympia Snowe (1947), Audrey Patterson (1926), Mark Warner (1954), Jake Sullivan (1976), Barbara Lee (1946), and Joseph Story (1779). After him are Jim Gilmore (1949), Oliver Wolcott (1726), Frank Murphy (1890), Steve Beshear (1944), Kay Bailey Hutchison (1943), and Nicholas F. Brady (1930).

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