Tim Kaine is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, which elected Hillary Clinton for vice president in the 2016 election. Before becoming his party’s vice president, the Harvard Law School graduate was a junior senator from Virginia to the Upper Chambers of Congress. He was also Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and Governor of the same state.
Tim Kaine Biography
Tim Kaine was born Timothy Michael Kaine, the eldest of three sons, Mary Kathleen (née Burns) and Albert Alexander Kaine, Jr., on February 26, 1958 in St. Paul, Minnesota. When Kaine was about two years old, his family moved to Kansas, where he was raised.
Due to the family’s strong religious beliefs, Kaine attended Rockhurst High School, part of the Roman Catholic Church. After graduating, he enrolled at the University of Missouri, where it took him three years to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in economics. Kaine then became a Coro Foundation fellow, after which he enrolled at Harvard Law School. During this time, Kaine worked as a missionary in Honduras before graduating in 1983 and earning a Juris Doctor degree. He then moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he was admitted to the bar the following year.
Kaine initially worked in the Richmond law firm of Little, Parsley & Cluverius, PC Mezzullo & McCandlish, PC It was around this time that he began teaching legal ethics at the University of Richmond School of Law before deciding to enter politics as a councilor in 1994. He served two terms as a councilor from Richmond’s 2nd Circuit before being elected mayor in 1998.
In 2001, Tim Kaine successfully ran for lieutenant governor of Virginia, after which he successfully ran again for governor of Virginia in 2005. In 2008, he became the first governor to support then-Senator Barack Obama’s bid for the presidency. Obama ultimately did not select him when he served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee while continuing to serve as governor.
Family – son, wife
Tim Kaine is married to Anne Bright Holton, a former judge at the District Court of Juvenile and Domestic Relations in Virginia who also served as Virginia Secretary of Education. She is also the daughter of A. Linwood Holton Jr., the 61st Governor of Virginia.
Woman. Holton was born on February 1, 1958 in Roanoke, Virginia. She attended Princeton University, where she earned a magna cum laude degree in public and international affairs, before earning her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she met and fell in love with her husband.
After law school, Kaine and Holton married in 1984. She chose to keep her maiden name when she first worked as a paralegal before becoming an attorney for the Legal Aid Society in Virginia. She became a judge in the mid-1990s, but was forced to resign after her husband was elected to office. She retained the position of First Lady before serving as Secretary of Education under Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s administration after her husband left office.
Together, Kaine and his wife have three children; The first is Nat, a United States Marine who was born in 1990, Linwood Michael who was born two years later in 1992, and Annella who was born in 1995.
Other interesting facts
Tim Kaine is very fluent in Spanish. He learned the language during his nine-month stay in El Progreso, Honduras, where he helped Jesuit missionaries run a Catholic school. He was also the first politician on a presidential ticket to deliver a speech in fluent Spanish.
As a Richmond, Virginia attorney, KaineMeist represents clients who have been discriminated against because of their race or disability. In one of his cases, he won a $100.5 million settlement from Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., although that amount was later reduced to $17.5 million after the case was overturned on appeal.
Tim Kaine is a staunch Catholic. He is personally opposed to abortion, but is unwilling to support legislation that prohibits women from making the choice for themselves.
In 2017 he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Catholic Isabella by the Spanish government.