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'''Ron Wyden''' is a United States Senator representing his constituents from the State of Oregon. Wyden has been a Senator since 1996. He is a
member of the Senate Committees on Finace, Intelligence, Aging, Budget and Energy & Natural Resources. He is the chairman of both Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests and the Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs and Global Competitiveness.<ref>[http://wyden.senate.gov/ron/ Meet Ron Wyden]</ref>
==Personal Background==
He was born '''Ron Lee Wyden''' to Jewish parents Edith Rosenow and Peter H. Wyden on May 3, 1949 in Wichita Kansas.<ref>[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/senators/wyden.htm Rootsweb-An Ancestry.com Community]</ref> His parents fled the German Nazis and moved to United States and settled in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1923. His father was a journalist and their family moved a around the country. After his parents divorced in 1960, Ron Wyden's mother moved to Palo Alto, California along with his younger brother. He grew up in Palo Alto and graduated from Palo Alto High School as a basketball superstar. <ref>
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ron-wyden-d-ore/gIQAfn599O_topic.html#at-a-glance Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) Path to Power]</ref> <ref>
[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/11/MN15604.DTL&type=printable Palo Alto To Honor Local Boy]</ref>
Senator Wyden was married to Nancy Wyden on September 2005. They were blessed with twins William
Peter
and
Ava
Rose. Senator Wyden's children to his previous marriage with Laurie Oseran are Adam David and Lilly Anne.<ref>[http://wyden.senate.gov/constituents/internship/062009internpacket.pdf About Senator Wyden]</ref>
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