Tom Cotton Biography, Age, Height, Contacts, Wife, Net Worth, Education, Family, Twitter and Committees

Tom Cotton Biography

Tom Cotton( born Thomas Bryant Cotton )is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator for Arkansas since January 3, 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. His military background includes service in Afghanistanand deployment to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom; he is a Bronze Star recipient. From 2013 to 2015, he served in the United States House of Representatives and was later elected to the U.S. Senate at age 37 in 2014, defeating two-term Democratic incumbent Mark Pryor.

Tom Cotton Age

He was born on 13th May 1977 in Dardanelle, Arkansas, United States. He is 41 years old as of 2018. The senator was born and raised in Dardanelle, Arkansas, United States.

Tom Cotton Height

Have you been wondering what could be the senator’s height is, well according to our research, he involved himself in basketball playing at Dardanelle High School where he played on the local and regional basketball teams; standing 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall, he was usually required to play center.

Tom Cotton Family

He was born in Dardanelle, Arkansas. His father Thomas Leonard “Len” Cotton, was a district supervisor in the Arkansas Health Department, and his mother, Avis (née Bryant) Cotton, was a schoolteacher who later became principal of their district’s middle school. His family had lived in rural Arkansas for seven generations, and he grew up on his family’s cattle farm.

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Tom Cotton Wife

Unfortunately, Tom is off the market. The senator is married to an attorney and a graduate from Pepperdine University with her B.A., who went on to receive her law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law four years later. They are members of the United Methodist Church, making him one of only 11 Senators to practice this religion. Anna Peckham​ and Tom have their first son, Gabriel, was born in April 2015, and their second son, Daniel, was born in December 2016. Though there is a rumor that has been circulating for some time that he, himself, is homosexual.

According to a classmate of his, “I never have seen Tom with a girl or talk about one. The rumor was he was gay but no proof ever found.” And for Arkansas residents, his marriage to Peckham was suspicious.The couple abruptly announced their marriage, and his office was evasive about the details. “He only got married so people would think he’s not gay. You can tell by the way he walks and talks,” the same classmate alleged.

Tom Cotton Education

He schooled at Dardanelle High School where he played on the local and regional basketball teams; standing 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall, he was usually required to play center. While in high school, He developed an intense desire to attend Harvard University and worked intently on his studies toward that goal. He was accepted to Harvard after graduating from high school in 1995 and majored in government. At Harvard, Cotton was a member of the editorial board of The Harvard Crimson, often dissenting from the liberal majority. He graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude in 1998 after only three years of study, having written his senior thesis on The Federalist Papers.

He later joined Claremont Graduate University after graduating from Harvard for his master’s degree program. He left in 1999, saying that he found academic life “too sedentary”, and instead enrolled at Harvard Law School. Cotton received his J.D. in 2002. After finishing law school in 2002, he served for a year as a clerk for Judge Jerry Edwin Smith at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He then entered the practice of law, working at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for a few months to pay off his student loans, and later at the law firm of Charles J. Cooper & Kirk from 2003 to 2004.

Tom Cotton Career

Below is an abbreviated outline of Cotton’s academic, professional, and political career:

• 2015-Present: U.S. Senator from Arkansas
• 2013-2015: U.S. Representative from Arkansas’ 4th Congressional District
• 2010-2011: Management consultant, McKinsey & Co
• 2005-2009: United States Army Officer
• 2002-2003: Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals
• 2002: Graduated from Harvard University with J.D.
• 1998: Graduated from Harvard University with B.A.

Tom Cotton Net Worth

Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org, Cotton’s net worth as of 2012 was estimated between $165,003 and $400,000. That averages to $282,501, which is lower than the average net worth of Republican representatives in 2012 of $7,614,097.96. Cotton ranked as the 323rd most wealthy representative in 2012. Between 2011 and 2012, Cotton’s calculated net worth decreased by an average of 2 percent per year. Between 2004 and 2012, the average annual percentage increase for a member of Congress was 15.4 percent.

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