Raja Krishnamoorthi in US House |
That`s 43-year-old Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Democratic Party candidate for the 8th district of Illinois, is very likely to be sitting in that chamber in January next year. Born in New Delhi, he came to America when he was merely three-month-old when his father joined graduate school in Buffalo in upstate New York. His family moved to Illinois in 1980, and he`s lived in the state for the vast part of his adult life, other than securing a bachelor`s degree in mechanical engineering at Princeton University. Krishnamoorthi then went on to graduate from the Harvard Law School. He tasted politics "licking envelopes and planting yard signs for Bill Clinton, back in 1991”. Krishnamoorthi is also an entrepreneur, having established Sivanathan Laboratories in the Chicagoland area. That firm is a high technology business, manufacturing infrared night vision military technology and solar technology based on a similar method.He maintains family ties in India.
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