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Tim Kaine Biography

Birth Name:

Timothy Michael Kaine

Birth Place:

Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Profession

Politician

Fast Facts

Graduated summa cum laude from the University of Missouri in 1979
Took a year off from Harvard Law School to serve as a Jesuit missionary in Honduras in 1980
Elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in 1998, a position he filled until 2001 when he successfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of the state
Elected as the Governor of Virginia in 2006
Delivered the Democratic Party's response to President George W
Bush's 2006 State of the Union address
Became a U
S
Senator for Virginia in 2012
Chosen as the running mate for Hillary Clinton's 2016 bid for the Presidency