a Representative from Delaware; born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., February 10, 1962; graduated from Padua Academy, Wilmington, Del., 1980; B.A., Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, N.J., 1985; M.A., University of Delaware, Newark, Del., 2003; staff, United States Representative Thomas Richard Carper of Delaware; deputy secretary, Del., department of health and social services, 1993-1998; Del., state secretary of labor, 1998-2001; personnel director, Del., office of management and budget, 2001-2004; chief executive officer, Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League, 2004-2007; senior fellow, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass., 2012-2015; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Fifteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2017-present).