Jeff Merkley

Jeff Merkley

Jeffrey Alan Merkley (born October 24, 1956) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Oregon since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 1999 to 2009 as the representative for the 47th district in the Oregon House of Representatives, which covers central Multnomah County on the eastern side of Portland; he was the speaker of the House during the last two years of his tenure. In 2008, Merkley defeated two-term Republican incumbent U.S. Senator Gordon Smith and was reelected in 2014 and 2020, defeating Republican nominees Monica Wehby and Jo Rae Perkins. During his tenure, Merkley has been an advocate of progressivism and was the only U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeff Merkley has received more than 1,182,799 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jeff Merkley is the 17,035th most popular politician (down from 15,297th in 2019), the 14,393rd most popular biography from United States (down from 13,438th in 2019) and the 1,070th most popular American Politician.