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Tom Carper (Democratic Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from Delaware. He assumed office on January 3, 2001. His current term ended on January 3, 2025.

Carper (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. Senate to represent Delaware. He won in the general election on November 6, 2018.

In the 2000 election Carper defeated incumbent William V. Roth Jr. (R), who had first been elected in 1970. Carper was re-elected in 2006, 2012, and 2018.

Before being elected to the Senate, Carper served as the governor of Delaware from 1992 to 2000, a member of the U.S. House from 1982 to 1992, and the treasurer of Delaware from 1976 to 1982.

As of a 2014 analysis of multiple outside rankings, Carper is an average Democratic member of Congress, meaning he will vote with the Democratic Party on the majority of bills.

Carper served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs from 2013 to 2014 and was the committee's ranking member from 2015 to 2016. In 2017, he became the ranking member on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Carper was born in Beckley, West Virginia. He grew up in Danville, Virginia, and graduated from Whetstone High School in Columbus, Ohio. Carper attended The Ohio State University on a Navy R.O.T.C. scholarship, graduating in 1968 with a B.A. in economics.