Bryan Townsend | |
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Majority Leader of the Delaware Senate | |
Assumed office November 4, 2020 | |
Preceded by | Nicole Poore |
Member of the Delaware Senate from the 11th district | |
Assumed office January 8,2013 | |
Preceded by | Anthony DeLuca |
Personal details | |
Born | Wilmington,Delaware,U.S. | May 19,1981
Political party | Democratic |
Education | University of Delaware (BA,BS) University of Cambridge (MPhil) Yale University (JD) |
Bryan Jeffrey Schurgard Townsend (born May 19,1981) is an American politician who represents District 11 in the Delaware Senate. [1] Townsend was elected Senate Majority Leader in 2020. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 2003.
As a political newcomer,Townsend defeated Anthony J. DeLuca—who was then President pro tempore of the Delaware Senate—in the 2012 Democratic primary by 57 percent to 42 percent. [2] [3] Townsend went on to defeat Republican Evan Queitsch in the general election,winning 78 percent of the vote. [4] [5]
Townsend was reelected in 2014. He defeated primary challenger David L. Tackett with 78 percent of the vote, [6] and was unopposed in the general election. [7]
In September 2015,in the wake of Representative John Carney's announcement that he would run for governor of the state,Townsend announced his candidacy for Delaware's at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. [8] On September 13,2016,his candidacy ended when he placed second in a six-way Democratic primary,behind former state Secretary of Labor Lisa Blunt Rochester (25% to 44%). [9] [10]
Townsend supports gun control and has supported a bill in 2018 to ban assault weapons. [11]
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