1. James Bradley Eldridge was born on August 11,1973 and is an American politician and lawyer.
26 Facts About Jamie Eldridge
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Jamie Eldridge serves as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate from the Middlesex and Worcester District.
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Jamie Eldridge previously served three terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he sat on the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business, the Joint Committee on Election Laws, and the Joint Committee on Public Service.
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Jamie Eldridge attended the Acton Public Schools and graduated from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in 1991.
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Jamie Eldridge was one of the original founders of the school's community service group, Acton Boxborough Community Outreach.
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Jamie Eldridge attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and majored in political science.
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Jamie Eldridge started studies at Boston College Law School in 1997 and graduated in 2000.
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Jamie Eldridge completed a summer internship as a student prosecutor for the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office.
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Jamie Eldridge worked as a prosecutor in the towns of Natick and Framingham, and assisted on the district attorney's community-based justice program in the City of Lowell.
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Jamie Eldridge worked for Merrimack Valley Legal Services in Lowell, a non-profit organization that provides free legal services to the poor and the elderly.
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Jamie Eldridge worked as a public interest lawyer in the fields of housing, Social Security disability, and unemployment law.
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Jamie Eldridge received the National Association for Public Interest Law Equal Justice Fellowship; a national two-year fellowship that allows recent law graduates to create their dream public interest project to help the less fortunate.
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Jamie Eldridge left his fellowship early to devote his full energies to running for the 37th Middlesex District open seat.
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Jamie Eldridge was elected to Massachusetts House of Representatives on November 5,2002.
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In 2007, Jamie Eldridge was a candidate in the Democratic primary for a special election to replace Marty Meehan as United States Congressman for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district.
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Jamie Eldridge lost the five-way Democratic primary to Niki Tsongas, whom he then endorsed.
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Jamie Eldridge had endorsed Barack Obama for president, and was elected to be a pledged delegate for Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
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Jamie Eldridge assumed the Massachusetts Senate seat formerly held by Pam Resor on January 7,2009.
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Jamie Eldridge has proposed a variety of legislation on the environment, economic justice, and a variety of other issues in his legislative career.
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Jamie Eldridge was the lead sponsor of bullying-prevention legislation, a version of which was passed by the legislature and signed into law in 2010.
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On February 28,2014, Jamie Eldridge endorsed Don Berwick for governor in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2014.
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In January 2016, Jamie Eldridge formally endorsed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016.
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Jamie Eldridge later served as a delegate for Sanders at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
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Jamie Eldridge later decided not to run for congress and stay in the state senate.
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Jamie Eldridge won re-election on November 6,2018 defeating Republican challenger Margaret Busse and Independent challenger Terra Friedrichs.
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Jamie Eldridge is an Acton, Massachusetts, native and the son of a public school kindergarten teacher and electrical engineer.