Eric Swalwell is an American politician. He serves as the U.S. Representative for California’s 15th congressional district since 2013.
So let’s dive into some more trivia and facts about his life and career.
- His full name is Eric Michael Swalwell Jr.
- He was born in November 16, 1980
- He is an American politician
- He is serving as the U.S. Representative for California’s 15th congressional district since 2013
- He is a member of the Democratic Party
- His district covers most of eastern Alameda County and part of central Contra Costa County
- Swalwell was raised in Sac City, Iowa, and Dublin, California
- While attending the University of Maryland, College Park, he served as a student liaison to the city council for College Park, Maryland
- He then interned for Ellen Tauscher and worked as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California
- Before being elected to the U.S. House, he served as a local appointee on Dublin commissions
- He also served one term elected to the Dublin City Council
- He was elected to the U.S. House in November 2012
- Defeating incumbent Pete Stark, a 40-year incumbent who had held the office since 1973
- Stark was a fellow Democrat almost a half-century Swalwell’s senior
- Swalwell was born shortly after Stark’s re-election to his fifth term in Congress in the 1980 election
- Swalwell took office on January 3, 2013
- Swalwell announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on April 8, 2019
- He dropped out of the race on July 8, 2019
- Swalwell was born on November 16, 1980, in Sac City, Iowa
- He is the first of four sons of Eric Nelson Swalwell and Vicky Joe Swalwell
- Both of whom are Republicans
- His father was then serving as police chief in Algona, Iowa
- After leaving Iowa, the family eventually settled in Dublin, California
- He graduated from Wells Middle School
- And then from Dublin High School in 1999
- Swalwell attended Campbell University in North Carolina on a soccer scholarship from 1999 to 2001
- He broke both of his thumbs in 2001, his sophomore year
- Thus ending the scholarship
- Swalwell transferred to the University of Maryland, College Park, as a junior
- In 2003, he completed his bachelor’s degree in government and politics at Maryland
- He enrolled at the University of Maryland School of Law and earned his Juris Doctor in 2006
- At the University of Maryland, Swalwell served as Vice President of Campus Affairs for the Student Government Association
- He was an elected member of the Student-Faculty-Staff University Senate and of its executive committee
- He was also an active member of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity
- He served as a student liaison to the City Council of College Park
- The latter appointment inspired other college towns to consider similar arrangements
- Swalwell and his first wife are divorced
- He married his second wife, Brittany Ann Watts, a sales director at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, in October 2016
- Together, the couple have a son, born in 2017
- And a daughter, born in 2018
- Swalwell revealed in February of 2019 that he was afflicted with Bell’s palsy at one point
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