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.

In 2020, Ossoff announced his bid for the United States Senate. After narrowly winning the Democratic primary, he received 48 percent of the vote in the general election to incumbent David Perdue's 49.7 percent. As neither candidate received a majority, they advanced to a runoff on January 5 which Ossoff narrowly won. With his victory, Ossoff became the youngest member of the Senate elected since Don Nickles in 1980 as well as the first Jewish member of the Senate from Georgia, the first Jewish senator from the Deep South since Benjamin F. Jonas of Louisiana, who was elected in 1879, and the first Millennial United States senator. On January 20, 2021, Ossoff was sworn into the United States Senate in the 117th Congress by Vice President Kamala Harris. He serves on the powerful Senate Judiciary; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and Rules Committees. He is also the Chair of the Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.