Amy Klobuchar Fast Facts
Here is a look at the life of Amy Klobuchar, US senator from Minnesota and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
Personal
Birth place: Plymouth, Minnesota
Father: Jim Klobuchar, Star Tribune columnist
Mother: Rose (Heuberger) Klobuchar, teacher
Marriage: John Bessler (1993-present)
Children: Abigail
Education: Yale University, B.A. in political science, magna cum laude, 1982; University of Chicago Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1985
Religion: Congregationalist (United Church of Christ)
Other Facts
Klobuchar’s daughter was born with a condition that prevented her from swallowing. Due to health insurance coverage rules at the time, Klobuchar had to leave the hospital after a 24-hour stay while her daughter remained. Klobuchar later testified before the Minnesota state legislature to successfully change the law ensuring new mothers a 48-hour stay covered by insurance. In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed similar legislation requiring insuran
Amy Klobuchar Fast Facts
Here is a look at the life of Amy Klobuchar, US senator from Minnesota and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
Personal
Birth place: Plymouth, Minnesota
Father: Jim Klobuchar, Star Tribune columnist
Mother: Rose (Heuberger) Klobuchar, teacher
Marriage: John Bessler (1993-present)
Children: Abigail
Education: Yale University, B.A. in political science, magna cum laude, 1982; University of Chicago Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1985
Religion: Congregationalist (United Church of Christ)
Other Facts
Klobuchar’s daughter was born with a condition that prevented her from swallowing. Due to health insurance coverage rules at the time, Klobuchar had to leave the hospital after a 24-hour stay while her daughter remained. Klobuchar later testified before the Minnesota state legislature to successfully change the law ensuring new mothers a 48-hour stay covered by insurance. In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed similar legislation requiring insuran
Amy Klobuchar Fast Facts
Here is a look at the life of Amy Klobuchar, US senator from Minnesota and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
Personal
Birth place: Plymouth, Minnesota
Father: Jim Klobuchar, Star Tribune columnist
Mother: Rose (Heuberger) Klobuchar, teacher
Marriage: John Bessler (1993-present)
Children: Abigail
Education: Yale University, B.A. in political science, magna cum laude, 1982; University of Chicago Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1985
Religion: Congregationalist (United Church of Christ)
Other Facts
Klobuchar’s daughter was born with a condition that prevented her from swallowing. Due to health insurance coverage rules at the time, Klobuchar had to leave the hospital after a 24-hour stay while her daughter remained. Klobuchar later testified before the Minnesota state legislature to successfully change the law ensuring new mothers a 48-hour stay covered by insurance. In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed similar legislation requiring insuran
Jim Klobuchar, Minnesota newspaperman and senatorâs father, dies at 93
By Katharine Q. Seelye New York Times,Updated May 19, 2021, 1:47 p.m.
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Jim Klobuchar was a renowned sports writer and general-interest columnist in Minnesota for decades.
Straight out of central casting, he was celebrated for his derring-do: He once held a piece of chalk between his lips while a sharpshooter took aim at it. He was a finalist for NASAâs initiative to send a journalist into space, until the Challenger explosion in 1986 ended the program. He scaled the Matterhorn eight times and Kilimanjaro five.
And he could make readers weep, as when he wrote about a 5-year-old girl with a brain tumor who loved to ride the rails: âShe was cradled in her motherâs lap on the observation car of the Milwaukee Roadâs Hiawatha, a tidy young lady. A dying little girl, taking her last train ride.â
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