Mitch McConnell

Senator from Kentucky, 1984-

Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell is the senior United States Senator from Kentucky. Born on February 20, 1942 in Sheffield, Alabama, he moved to Louisville, Kentucky with his family when was fourteen years old. McConnell graduated from the University of Louisville in 1964 and, before joining the University of Kentucky College of Law the following fall, interned on Capitol Hill for Senator John Sherman Cooper. Following graduation from UK Law in 1967, McConnell returned to Washington, DC to work as chief legislative assistant for Senator Marlow Cook. In 1977, he was elected as the Jefferson County Judge Executive, and then re-elected term in 1981. McConnell ran for the US Senate in 1984 and defeated the Democratic incumbent Walter Dee Huddleston. Nearly two decades into his Senate career, McConnell became Majority Whip for the Republican caucus in the Senate. In 2007, he was voted Minority Leader, and in 2014, Majority Leader. In 2018, McConnell became the longest-serving Republican leader in Senate history. He is also the longest-serving senator Kentucky history.

Source

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Oral Histories

McConnell, Addison Mitchell, Jr., interview by Anu Kasarabada. December 29, 2017, John G. Heyburn II Initiative for Excellence in the Federal Judiciary Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.