Adam Schiff trivia: 42 amazing facts about the American politician

Adam Schiff is an American politician serving as as the U.S. Representative for California’s 28th congressional district since 2001.

So let’s dive into some unknown and facts!

1. His full name is Adam Bennett Schiff
2. He was born on June 22, 1960
3. He is an American politician
4. Serving as the U.S. Representative for California’s 28th congressional district since 2001
5. He is a member of the Democratic Party
6. Schiff’s district was numbered as the 27th from 2001 to 2003 and as the 29th from 2003 and 2013
7. He has always been centered in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles
8. Including Pasadena, Glendale and his hometown of Burbank
9. For his first six terms, he represented a district
10. Included the areas of Alhambra, Altadena, San Gabriel, Burbank, Glendale, South Pasadena, Temple City, Monterey Park, and Pasadena
11. In 2010, his district’s boundaries were re-drawn
12. To include, among others, La Cañada Flintridge and La Crescenta-Montrose
13. As well as large slices of Los Angeles itself including Sunland-Tujunga, Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, West Hollywood, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and Los Feliz
14. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
15. He is currently on leave from the House Appropriations Committee which he joined in 2007
16. He previously served on the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee and the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee
17. Schiff was born in Framingham, Massachusetts
18. He is the son of Edward and Sherrill Ann (Glovsky) Schiff
19. He was raised in a Jewish family
20. And moved to Danville, California, during high school
21. He graduated from Monte Vista High School
22. He received a political science degree from Stanford University
23. And a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School
24. After Harvard Law School, Schiff began working as a prosecutor in the Los Angeles branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office
25. While an assistant U.S. Attorney, he gained attention by prosecuting a case against Richard Miller
26. He was a former FBI agent
27. He was convicted of “passing secret documents to the Soviet Union in exchange for a promised $65,000 in gold and cash”
28. The first trial resulted in a hung jury
29. The second trial resulted in a conviction that was overturned on appeal
30. Miller was convicted in a third trial
31. Schiff and his wife Eve have two children
32. They are Alexa and Elijah
33. Schiff has participated in multiple endurance challenges
34. Including triathlons and marathons
35. Schiff was the only Congressman to participate in the inaugural Washington, D.C. triathlon in 2010
36. And has since participated in other races in Philadelphia, New York City, and Malibu
37. In 2014, Schiff was the first member of Congress to participate in the AIDS/LifeCycle
38. A seven-day charity bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles
39. To raise awareness and funding to fight HIV and AIDS
40. Schiff is vegan
41. The New Yorker reported in 2018 that “Schiff has been writing screenplays on the side for years”
42. Including a murder mystery, a post-Holocaust story, and a spy drama