Candidate · U.S. Senate
Pete Ricketts
What this job does: One of Nebraska's two votes in the U.S. Senate. Senators write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and approve or reject the president's picks for federal judges, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet. A term is six years.
- Current office
- U.S. Senator (appointed Jan. 2023)
- Occupation
- U.S. Senator
- Lives in
- Omaha
Background
- Appointed to the U.S. Senate on Jan. 12, 2023, to replace Ben Sasse; took office Jan. 23, 2023. source: ballotpedia.org
- Governor of Nebraska, 2015-2023. source: ballotpedia.org
- Bachelor's degree in biology and an MBA from the University of Chicago. source: ballotpedia.org
- Worked as an executive, including chief operating officer, at the company that became Ameritrade; founded Drakon LLC. source: ballotpedia.org
- Born in Nebraska City. source: ballotpedia.org
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