Elizabeth Warren (Democratic Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. She assumed office on January 3, 2013. Her current term ends on January 3, 2025.
Warren (Democratic Party) is running for re-election to the U.S. Senate to represent Massachusetts. She declared candidacy for the 2024 election.
Warren focused her campaign on economic issues, including proposing a wealth tax on the wealthiest 75,000 families to partially fund universal childcare, student loan debt relief, the Green New Deal, and Medicare for All. She ended her presidential campaign on March 5, 2020.
Warren's professional experience includes time in both the government and academic sectors. Prior to serving in the U.S. Senate, Warren helped establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Obama administration. She also served as the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program from 2008 to 2010.
Warren worked as a law professor for three decades at several universities, including the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.
As of a 2014 analysis of multiple outside rankings, Warren is an average Democratic member of Congress, meaning she will vote with the Democratic Party on the majority of bills.
Warren was born in 1949 and grew up in Oklahoma. She graduated from high school at age 16 and earned a bachelor's in speech pathology in 1970 from the University of Houston. She earned her J.D. from Rutgers Law School at Newark. Warren taught at the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. Warren also authored 11 books about the economy, the middle class, and personal finance.
In the mid-1990s, Warren served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. In 1996, she changed her affiliation from Republican to Democratic.
In 2008, she was appointed by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) to serve as the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, created during the economic recession to oversee the Treasury and evaluate market transparency. Warren left the role in 2010 to serve as a special adviser at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Obama administration.
Warren won the 2012 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts with 53 percent of the vote, defeating incumbent Scott Brown (R). She was the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate representing Massachusetts.
