Jim Himes

Jim Himes spent his early childhood in Peru and Colombia, speaking Spanish and English while his father worked for the Ford Foundation and UNICEF.¹ Born in Lima to American parents, he moved to the United States with his mother and sisters at ten and attended public high school in New Jersey.¹

He graduated from Harvard and studied Latin America at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, including research in El Salvador.¹ His first career was at Goldman Sachs, where he became a vice president during 12 years with the firm.¹ He later led Enterprise Community Partners' New York City operation, whose work financed affordable housing.¹

Before Congress, Himes chaired the Greenwich Housing Authority and served on the town's finance board.¹ He won his House seat in 2008 and is now the Intelligence Committee's senior Democrat, while also serving on Financial Services.² He points to infrastructure law funding for Norwalk's WALK Bridge replacement as an example of investment benefiting Amtrak and Metro North passengers.²

Himes names housing, infrastructure and living costs among his current priorities and supports additional measures to increase housing construction.² He faces Republican Michael Goldstein in the November election.³ If reelected with a Democratic House majority, he hopes to chair Intelligence and expand oversight of the administration and intelligence contractors.²