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Here's a look at the life of Democratic U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia.
Birthdate: February 26, 1958
Place of birth: St. Paul, Minnesota
Birth name: Timothy Michael Kaine
Father: Albert Alexander Kaine Jr., blacksmith
Mother: Mary Kathleen (Burns) Kaine, teacher
Marriage: Anne Holton (1984-present)
Children: Nat, Woody and Annella
Education: University of Missouri, B.A., 1979; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1983
Religion: Roman Catholic
He practiced law in Richmond, Virginia, for 17 years, representing people who were denied fair housing opportunities due to their race or disability.
He was the first governor of Virginia since Thomas Jefferson to take office in the colonial capital of Williamsburg.
Fluency in Spanish. He took a year off from Harvard to help Jesuit missionaries run a one-room technical school in Honduras.
One of only a few dozen people in American history to serve as mayor, governor, and United States senator.
1987-1993 – He teaches legal ethics at the University of Richmond School of Law.
1994-1998 – He serves as a member of the city council in Richmond, Virginia.
1998-2000 – He serves as mayor of Richmond, Virginia.
2002-2006 – He serves as lieutenant governor of Virginia.
January 14, 2006-January 15, 2010 – He serves as governor of Virginia.
2008 – Rumored to be one of President Barack Obama's picks for vice president.
2009-2011 – He serves as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
January 3, 2013 – Sworn in as senator from Virginia.
June 11, 2013 – He delivers a speech in Spanish during a debate on the Senate immigration bill. Kaine is the first senator to deliver an entire speech on the Senate floor in a language other than English.
February 2015 – Cosponsors the Iran Nuclear Deal Review Act.
July 22, 2016 – Named Hillary Clinton's vice presidential running mate in the presidential election.
November 8, 2016 – The Clinton-Kaine ticket is defeated in the presidential election by the Donald Trump-Mike Pence ticket.
November 6, 2018 – Reelected Senator from Virginia.
February 13, 2020 – A bipartisan resolution on Iran's war powers sponsored by Kaine passes the Senate by a vote of 55 to 45. This follows military action, initiated unilaterally by Trump, that resulted in the death of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in January . The law, written primarily by Kaine with his initial cosponsors Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Richard Durbin, is “a joint resolution to order the withdrawal of the armed forces of the United States from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress.
January 3, 2022 – Along with hundreds of other motorists, Kaine is stranded for more than 24 hours on a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in eastern Virginia after a winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on the area.
January 20, 2023 – He announces that he is running for re-election in 2024.
