Elizabeth Warren is probably the best-known candidate for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.
The information presented below is from her campaign site and from various sources on the Internet.
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Elizabeth Warren
Candidate for U.S. Senate
Where Elizabeth Warren Stands on the Issues
About Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren is an American bankruptcy law expert, policy advocate, and a Harvard Law School professor. She was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, attended George Washington University (on a full debate-team scholarship) for two years, the University of Houston (from which she graduated in 1970 with a degree in speech pathology and audiology), and received a J.D. from Rutgers School of Law–Newark in 1976. When she was twelve, her father - a janitor - suffered a heart attack, which led to major financial difficulties and forced her mother to work as phone operator at Sears in order to help support Elizabeth and her three older brothers. Elizabeth, too, helped out by working as a waitress in her aunt's restaurant.
She married her first husband, Jim Warren - a NASA engineer in Houston, when she was 19. They had two children before they got divorced in 1978. She married Bruce Mann, a legal historian and a law professor at Harvard Law School, in 1980.
She came to public attention in 2008 when she was appointed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to chair the five-member Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (TARP). She was appointed by President Obama to work on the implementation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (that was established by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act) as a Special Assistant to the President in anticipation of the agency's formal opening.
After leaving Washington in 2011, Ms. Warren returned to Harvard and academia. However, on September 14, 2011 she announced that she was running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now being held by Scott Brown.
You can read more about Ms. Warren at http://elizabethwarren.com; and you may contact her through her volunteer page at http://elizabethwarren.com/volunteer.
