Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
Sheldon Whitehouse was born in October 1955 in New York City. He earned an undergraduate degree from Yale College and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law. He clerked at the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
Whitehouse worked in the office of the Rhode Island Attorney General as a special assistant attorney, and later was executive counsel to Rhode Island’s governor.
President Bill Clinton appointed Whitehouse U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island, a position he held for four and a half years. He was then elected Attorney General of the State of Rhode Island, where he served four years. He was elected to the U.S. Senate and assumed office in January 2007.
Whitehouse is married to Sandra Thornton and they have two children. He is an Episcopalian.
In the News…
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island co-led a session at autumn meeing of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, outlining concerns on the effect of fossil fuels have on climate and the impact on insurance, mortgage and real estate markets.
Senator Whitehouse stated,“The damage humanity sustains from fossil fuels in climate-driven floods and wildfires has a leading indicator, in the insurance sector. Markets predict. Across my country, and probably yours, climate risks are making whole areas uninsurable.“
Senator Whitehouse said that warnings of significant losses of property values have come from the financial sector, including large mortgage companies.
“For our own safety, we need to get more serious about the politics of climate change if we’re going to head this off,“ the senator said. “We face climate peril as fossil fuel disrupts Nature’s systems; and we face the more immediate, systemic economic peril that prefigures it.“
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The Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse
Senator from Rhode Island
530 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
