Tom Kean Jr. has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 2003. He represents the 21st Legislative District, which covers parts of Union, Morris, Somerset and Essex Counties. On November 8, 2007 he was elected to serve as Minority Leader of the Senate. Kean is a graduate of the Pingry School and Dartmouth College and holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the prestigious Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he is currently completing his doctoral dissertation in international relations. He is a former aide to former Congressman Bob Franks and was a special assistant at the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the George H. W. Bush administration. He has also been a volunteer firefighter and a volunteer emergency medical technician. Kean currently resides in Westfield, New Jersey with his wife, Rhonda, and their two daughters. Kean was appointed to the New Jersey General Assembly, the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, in April 2001, to fill out the unexpired term of Alan Augustine, who had resigned on March 21, 2001, due to health reasons. He then was elected to a full term in the Assembly in his own right in November 2001. In the Assembly, he was the Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee and served as Vice Chairman for the State Government Committee. Kean’s Republican Caucus has an influx of new youthful, ambitious Senators that are looking to revitalize the party in New Jersey.

2008-09 Sponsored Bills
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