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Hillary Clinton Vice President Candidate Tim Kaine, Who is US Democratic Vice Precidential Candidate 2016

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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has picked Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her White House running mate for the general elections to be held in the US in November.

Timothy Michael "Tim" Kaine (born February 26, 1958) is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Kaine was elected to the Senate in 2012 and is the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Kaine grew up in Missouri and earned a law degree from Harvard Law School before entering private practice and becoming a lecturer at the University of Richmond School of Law. He was first elected to public office in 1994, when he won a seat on the Richmond, Virginia City Council. He was then elected mayor of Richmond in 1998, serving in that position until being elected lieutenant governor of Virginia in 2001. Kaine was elected governor of Virginia in 2005, serving from 2006 to 2010. He served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
On July 22, 2016, Hillary Clinton announced that she had selected Kaine as her vice presidential running mate in the 2016 presidential election.