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Cory Booker
Mayor
Date of Birth:
April 27, 1969
Place of Birth:
Washington, D.C.
Since Cory Booker became mayor, the murder rate in Newark, N.J., has fallen by a third. And he has personally raised $25 million in private donations for the city's charter schools. "My belief in what’s possible in Newark is far grander now than it was when I started this job,” he says.
