Sam Arora is an American businessman and politician from Montgomery County, Maryland.
10 Facts About Sam Arora
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Sam Arora was sworn into office on January 12,2011.
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Sam Arora announced in 2013 that he would not seek reelection to a second term.
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Sam Arora's parents are Punjabis who immigrated from New Delhi, India to the United States in the 1970s, settling in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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Sam Arora attended the Barrie School, where he was student body president and graduated salutatorian.
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Sam Arora currently is Vice President for Business Development of the Sam Arora Group, a health care services firm that primarily serves the Department of Defense and US Coast Guard.
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Sam Arora began working in 1999 as an intern and briefly as a staff assistant to US Senator Carl Levin before moving to New York to attend Columbia University, where he began interning on the exploratory campaign for then-First Lady Hillary Clinton and later in her Senate office.
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In early March 2011, Arora began backpedaling on his support for the legislation, removing references to his earlier enthusiasm for same-sex marriage from his campaign's Twitter account and privately telling the bill's sponsor, Del.
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Sam Arora has not given any explanation for why he reversed his position from co-sponsoring a marriage equality bill to opposing it.
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Sam Arora ran for a delegate seat in the three-member 19th district, where he grew up.