Barbara Levy Boxer is the junior United States Senator

United States Senate

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 from California

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 (since 1993). A member of the Democratic Party

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, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–1993).

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Boxer graduated from Brooklyn College

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. She worked as a stockbroker for several years before moving to California with her husband. During the 1970s, she worked as a journalist

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 for the Pacific Sun and as an aide to U.S.