Ossoff, Jon, 1987-

Thomas Jonathan Ossoff (born February 16, 1987) is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he has served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia since 2021.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in the Atlanta suburb of Northlake, Georgia, he attended the Paideia School, an independent school in Atlanta. While in high school, he interned for civil rights leader and U.S. representative John Lewis. After graduating, Ossoff earned a B.S. from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and an M.S. from the London School of Economics. From 2007 to 2012, Ossoff worked as a national security staffer and legislative assistant for foreign affairs and defense policy for U.S. Representative Hank Johnson. From 2013 to 2021, Ossoff was the managing director and chief executive officer of Insight TWI, a London-based investigative television production company that works with reporters to create documentaries about corruption in foreign countries. The firm produced BBC investigations about ISIS war crimes and death squads in East Africa. Ossoff was involved in producing a documentary about the staging of a play in Sierra Leone. He narrowly lost his bid to replace Republican Congressman Tom Price in Georgia's 6th congressional district, losing to Karen Handel by 3.5 points.

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