James A. Himes

Biography

HIMES, James A., a Representative from Connecticut; born in Lima, Peru, July 5, 1966; graduated from Hopewell Valley Central High School, Pennington, N.J.; A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1988; M. Phil., Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1990; banking executive; non-profit executive; member of the Greenwich, Conn., housing authority, 2003-2006; chairman, 2003-2006; member of the Greenwich, Conn., board of estimate and taxation, 2006-2007; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Eleventh and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2009-present); chair, Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth (One Hundred Seventeenth Congress).