Dwight Carter Holton was born on December 18,1965 and is an American attorney and politician from Oregon.
10 Facts About Dwight Holton
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The elder Dwight Holton, who ran on a platform of racial reconciliation, famously sent his children to majority-Black public schools in Richmond, following court-ordered integration.
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Dwight Holton spent over a decade prosecuting cases in Brooklyn and, later, Portland, Oregon, before being named interim United States Attorney for the District of Oregon in 2010.
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Dwight Holton was born on December 18,1965 in Roanoke, Virginia, the fourth and youngest child of Virginia Harrison "Jinks" and Abner Linwood Dwight Holton Jr.
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Dwight Holton was named for former President Dwight D Eisenhower, who had campaigned for his father during his unsuccessful gubernatorial run against Mills Godwin earlier in the year, and Episcopal bishop Robert Carter Jett, his great-grandfather.
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Dwight Holton's parents made national headlines when they sent his older siblings: Tayloe, Anne, and Woody, to majority-Black schools near the Executive Mansion, in a show of public support for the move.
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Dwight Holton moved with his family to northern Virginia in 1974, when his father accepted a job as Richard Nixon's Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations.
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Dwight Holton graduated from Langley High School in 1983, after which he entered Brown University.
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Dwight Holton received a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Ideology in 1987.
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On September 22,2000, Dwight Holton married Mary Ellen Glynn, a spokesperson for Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former White House deputy press secretary under Bill Clinton, at Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic Church in La Jolla, California.