Ken Salazar

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ken Salazar
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 2, 1955(1955-03-02)
Age	69
Birthplace	Colorado
Country	United States
Birth City	Colorado
Horoscope	Pisces

Ken Salazar Biography

Ken Salazar is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 2, 1955 in Colorado, Colorado, United States. 50th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2009 to 2013 who was a US Senator from Colorado from 2005 to 2009. He was only the second Hispanic Interior Secretary in US History.

He was appointed United States Secretary of the Interior by Barack Obama in 2009 and served the office until 2013.

Kenneth Lee Salazar (born March 2, 1955) is an American politician who served as the 50th United States Secretary of the Interior in the administration of President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was a United States Senator from Colorado from 2005 to 2009. He and Mel Martinez (R-Florida) were the first Hispanic U.S. Senators since 1977; they were joined by Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) in 2006. Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, he served as Attorney General of Colorado from 1999 to 2005.

Ken Salazar was born in Alamosa, Colorado, the son of Emma Montoya and Enrique Salazar. His elder brother is former Congressman John Salazar. He grew up near Manassa, in the community of Los Rincones in the San Luis Valley area of south-central Colorado. Salazar attended St. Francis Seminary and Centauri High School in La Jara, graduating in 1973. He later attended Colorado College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1977, and received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Michigan Law School in

1981. Later Salazar was awarded honorary degrees (Doctor of Laws) from Colorado College (1993) and the University of Denver (1999). After graduating, Salazar started private law practice.

He has two daughters with his wife Hope.

Ken Salazar Net Worth

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

He obtained a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, after earning a bachelor’s from Colorado College.

He was the designated survivor for the 2011 State of the Union Address.

In this position, he authored the Great Outdoors Colorado Amendment, which created a massive land conservation program of which he became chairman. Salazar also created the Youth in Natural Resources program, giving thousands of Colorado’s youth an opportunity to work and learn about Colorado’s natural resources in public schools. The Great Outdoors Colorado program’s success was a model for President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative to create a 21st-century agenda for conservation and outdoor recreation.

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In 2004, Salazar declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Salazar considers himself a moderate and has at times taken positions that are in disagreement with the base of his party—for example, he opposed gay adoption for a number of years, although by 2004 he had reversed that position. Salazar fell behind to candidate Mike Miles early in the state’s caucus process. The national Democratic Party backed Salazar with contributions from the DSCC, and Salazar came back to defeat Miles in the Democratic primary, going on to defeat beer executive Pete Coors of the Coors Brewing Company and win the general election for the Senate seat. His elder brother John also had an electoral victory in 2004, winning a race for the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado’s 3rd congressional district.

Facts & Trivia

Ken Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ken Salazar celebrates birthday on March 2 of every year.

On May 23, 2005, Salazar was among the Gang of 14 moderate senators to forge a compromise on the Democrats’ use of the filibuster against judicial appointments, thus blocking the Republican leadership’s attempt to implement the so-called “nuclear option”. Under the agreement, the Democrats would retain the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an “extraordinary circumstance”, and the three most conservative Bush appellate court nominees (Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor) would receive a vote by the full Senate. Salazar has skirmished with Focus on the Family, a Colorado-based conservative Christian group of national stature, over his stance on judicial nominees.