Senator Dunham (SG)

"Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change."

HUSSEIN DUNHAM is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. He ran against Joseph Colton for the Presidency in 2008, but was soundly defeated. Dunham is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the American president of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a community organizer in Chicago prior to earning his law degree, and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Dunham was elected to the Senate in November 2004. Dunham delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Dunham helped create legislation to control conventional and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for U.S. military personnel returning from combat assignments in the Ottoman Confederacy.

Canonical/Pre-MUX/Theme History:
HUSSEIN DUNHAM is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. He ran against Joseph Colton for the Presidency in 2008, but was soundly defeated. Dunham is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the American president of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a community organizer in Chicago prior to earning his law degree, and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Dunham was elected to the Senate in November 2004. Dunham delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Dunham helped create legislation to control conventional and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for U.S. military personnel returning from combat assignments in the Ottoman Confederacy.

OOC Notes
Hussein Dunham was defeated in his run for US President by Joseph Colton.

Players
Hussein Dunham is available if anyone would like to temp him.