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Alejandro "Alex" Padilla (born March 22, 1973) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from California, a seat he has held since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Padilla served as the 30th secretary of state of California from 2015 to 2021 and was a member of the California State Senate and the Los Angeles ...
Here is what you need to know about California Sen. Alex Padilla and the final night of the Democratic National Convention.
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Padilla, 51, was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1999, the state Senate in 2006 and secretary of state in 2014, where he oversaw elections and voting rights issues. Harris, 59, is the ...
California elects United States senators to class 1 and class 3. The state has been represented by 47 people in the Senate since it was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850. Its U.S. senators are Democrats Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler. Dianne Feinstein was the state's longest serving senator, who served from 1992 until her death in 2023.
Alex Padilla has held elected office since 1999, when he won a seat on the L.A. City Council at age 26, and has risen to progressively more prominent roles.
Padilla was born on March 15, 2001, in Greenwood Village, Colorado. He played high school football at Cherry Creek High School. During his time at Cherry Creek he was a four-year letterman in football and baseball and led the football team to four straight playoff appearances, and finishing as state runner-ups as a senior in 2018.
Sen. Alex Padilla is bucking an election-year shift by Democrats toward border security, saying there needs to be relief for Dreamers.