Amy Jean Klobuchar is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota, a seat she has held since 2007. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota’s affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County attorney.
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In 1993, Klobuchar married John Bessler, a private practice attorney and a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law. They have a daughter who graduated from Yale University and worked as a legislative director for New York councilman Keith Power.
Klobuchar is a member of the United Church of Christ and is a cousin of musician Zola Jesus. In September 2021, Klobuchar revealed that she had been diagnosed with Stage 1A breast cancer in February 2021, that she had undergone a successful lumpectomy, and that in May she had completed a course of radiation treatment. In August, her doctors determined that the treatments had all been successful and she was cancer-free.
Klobuchar’s grandparents were immigrants from Slovenia’s White Carniola region. Her paternal grandfather was a miner on Minnesota’s Iron Range. Amy’s maternal grandparents emigrated from Switzerland to the United States.