Lamar Alexander Net Worth
Lamar Alexander, a politician from Tennessee, has an estimated net worth of $6 million, although he has reported his net worth as low as $3 million and as high as $12 million in recent financial disclosures. He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, in 1940 and graduated from Vanderbilt University and New York University School of Law.
After law school, Alexander worked as a legislative assistant to Senator Howard Baker and as an assistant in the Nixon Administration in the late 1960s. He won the 1974 Tennessee gubernatorial election but was defeated in the general election. He was later elected as the 45th Governor of Tennessee in 1979 and served until 1987.
President George H. W. Bush nominated Alexander to serve as Secretary of Education, a post he held from 1991 to 1993. Alexander made unsuccessful attempts to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000. He was elected as a United States senator from Tennessee in 2002 and has been reelected multiple times, most recently in 2014. He served as the conference chair of the Republican Party in the US Senate from 2007 to 2012 and became Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in 2014.
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