Martin Joseph O'Malley was born in Washington, DC on January 18, 1963 and is an American politician. He was the 61st Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015. Prior to being elected as governor, he served as the Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007 and was a Baltimore City Councilor from 1991 to 1999. O'Malley served as the chair of the Democratic Governors Association from 2011 to 2013, while serving as governor of Maryland.
Elizabeth Ann Warren was born June 22, 1949 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She became a star member of the debate team at Northwest Classen High School and won the title of "Oklahoma's top high-school debater" while competing with debate teams from high schools throughout the state. She also won a debate scholarship to George Washington University at the age of 16. Initially aspiring to be a teacher, she left GWU after two years to marry her high-school boyfriend, Jim Warren.
Bernard Sanders was born September 8, 1941 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended elementary school at P.S. 197, where he won a state championship on the basketball team. He attended Hebrew school in the afternoons and had his bar mitzvah in 1954. Sanders later attended James Madison High School, where he was captain of the track team. Sanders went to Brooklyn College for a year before transferring to the University of Chicago where graduated with a degree in political science in 1964.
Alan Stuart "Al" Franken was born on May 21, 1951 in NYC, NY who, after several decades as a comedic actor and writer, became a prominent political activist. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party, he narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman in 2008. Franken is currently the junior US Senator from Minnesota.
Claire McCaskill was born on July 24, 1953 in Rolla, MO, graduated from the University of Missouri and studied at Georgetown University. She's a member of the Democratic Party who serves as the senior US Senator from Missouri. McCaskill is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Missouri after defeating Republican incumbent Jim Talent in the 2006 election, by a margin of 49.6% to 47.3%. She became the state's senior U.S. Senator when Kit Bond retired in 2011. She then won a bid for re-election in 2012, defeating Republican Todd Akin by a margin of 54.7% to 39.2%.
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