Ben Jealous

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ben Jealous
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 18, 1973(1973-01-18)
Age	51
Birthplace	Pacific Grove
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ben Jealous Biography

Ben Jealous is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 18, 1973 in Pacific Grove, California, United States. Jealous is born 1973 at Pacific Grove, California and spent his childhood in the Monterey Peninsula. Jealous’ mother, Ann (Todd) Jealous is black. She was psychotherapist and grew as a child in Baltimore, Maryland. She was involved in the de-segregation process at Western High School. She is the co-author together alongside Caroline Haskell, of Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about Racism (2013). Fred Jealous, his father Fred Jealous, who is white, comes from the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, related to the businessman Joseph B. Sargent, and the first in his line of succession to the wealth of Sargent and Co. Sargent and Co business. He was the founder of his own organization called the Breakthrough Men’s Community and participated in Baltimore sit-ins to disenfranchise food counters. Jealous’s parents were married in Baltimore in the year 1966. In the early years they did not publicly dating in public. When they attended the cinema they took different paths towards seats adjacent to each other to conceal their relationship. Being an interracial couple they were forbidden by law of the state to marry in Maryland prior to 1967. They got married at Washington, D.C. and went back to Baltimore for a period of time before making the move in California in the beginning of the 1970s. When he was a kid, Jealous was sent to Baltimore to spend the summer with his maternal grandparents who resided at Baltimore’s Ashburton neighborhood.

Jealous was elected president in 2008 as well as CEO for the NAACP At the age of 35, he was youngest person ever to hold the post. He served until the year 2012. The time he served, Jealous initiated national programs regarding health, justice for the criminal and environmental justice, as well as voting rights. He also extended existing programs and established his own NAACP Financial Freedom Center to provide banking education and financial tools.

Jealous broadened the NAACP’s alliances in 2011 at the National Press Club when a conservative coalition of criminal justice reform advocates endorsed an NAACP report authored by Jealous. In the report, Jealous highlights the adverse effects of over-incarceration of youth on society and the case for increasing public funding for education. In Texas later that year, the NAACP worked with leaders of the Tea Party to pass a dozen criminal justice reform measures, leading to the first scheduled prison closure in state history. Similarly, in 2013, the NAACP worked closely with Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell to pass bipartisan voting rights reform that gave former offenders the chance to vote after they served the terms of their sentence.

During his tenure, the NAACP helped register 374,553 voters and mobilize 1.2 million new voters to turn out at the polls for the 2012 presidential election. It supported abolition of the death penalty in Connecticut and Maryland, endorsed same-sex marriage, and fought laws it believed were intended for voter suppression in states across the country.

Jealous got married Lia Epperson, an NAACP lawyer and law professor at the American University Washington College of Law in July 2002. Epperson is the sibling of CNBC reporter Sharon Epperson. Jealous Epperson and Epperson are parents to two kids. They divorced in the year 2015.

Ben Jealous Net Worth

Ben Jealous is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben Jealous 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18th 1973) is an American politician and civic leader. He was chief executive officer and president for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 2008 to 2013. When he was chosen to lead the NAACP at the age of 35 and became the organization’s youngest leader in the nation. The Washington Post in 2013 identified him as “one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders.”

In Mississippi, Jealous began working as a reporter at Jackson Advocate, Mississippi’s oldest newspaper that was primarily black under the direction of its publisher Charles Tisdale. He was later promoted to the editor in chief. His work was recognized for uncovering corruption among officials of high rank at the prison of the state in Parchman. In addition, he assisted in the acquittal of a small-scale farmer who was wrongly believed to be arsonist. Jealous returning back to Columbia at the end of 1997 and there he was granted the Rhodes Scholarship.

Jealous led the NAACP to work closely with other civil rights, labor and environmental groups. In 2010 the NAACP was one of the conveners of the One Nation Working Together Rally, which Jealous referred to as “an antidote” to the Tea Party. In June 2012, the NAACP led several thousand protesters from different groups to march down New York City’s Fifth Avenue in protest of the NYPD’s policy of stop-and-frisk policing. In 2012 Jealous formed the Democracy Initiative along with other progressive leaders, to build a national campaign around three goals: getting big money out of politics, supporting voting rights, and reforming broken Senate rules. Finally, in 2013 Jealous gave the keynote address at the A10 Rally for Citizenship, a major rally for immigration reform at the US Capitol.

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Jealous is a progressive Democrat. He endorsed Bernie Sanders in his 2016 campaign for U.S. president, then supported Hillary Clinton after she was nominated as candidate by the Democratic Party.

Facts & Trivia

Ben Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ben Jealous celebrates birthday on January 18 of every year.

The general election was held on November 6, 2018, and Jealous lost the election to the incumbent governor, Hogan by a wide margin of 11.9%.