HLS competing in 2012 election races

A number of Harvard Law School graduates across the country are candidates for office in this year’s presidential and Congressional races.

In a historic first, both candidates of the major parties in the U.S. presidential election are graduates of Harvard Law School. President Barack Obama is a member of the Class of  ’91 and his Republican opponent Mitt Romney is a 1975 graduate of both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.

As the two Harvard Law School grads compete for the U.S. presidency, the list of HLS affiliates running in congressional races across the country includes 19 alumni and one HLS faculty member. In the U.S. House of Representatives, nine are incumbents and eight are challengers running for the first time. In the Senate, two HLS alumni and one HLS professor are running. Five grads already serving and not currently up for re-election: Michael D. Crapo ’77 (R-Idaho), Carl Levin ’59 (D-Minn.), Jack Reed ’82 (D-R.I.), Charles E. Schumer ’74 (D-N.Y.), and Mark Warner ’80 (D-Va.).

U.S. House of Representatives

Incumbents:

Challengers:

U.S. Senate

Challengers

HLS Professor Elizabeth Warren, (D), Massachusetts

Ted Cruz ’95 (R), Texas

Tim Kaine ’83 (D), Virginia