Glenn Nye
U.S. Representative for Virginia's 2nd congressional district
Glenn Carlyle Nye III (born September 9, 1974) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Virginia's 2nd congressional district from 2009 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He lost re-election in 2010. The district included all of Virginia Beach and the Eastern Shore, as well as parts of Norfolk and Hampton. He is the last representative from the second district who did not serve in the United States Military.
Nye currently serves as president and CEO of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.
Early life, education and career
Nye was born in Philadelphia, but his family has lived in the Hampton Roads area for five generations. He grew up in Norfolk and graduated from high school at Norfolk Academy. A graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., he volunteered on medical education missions to the Middle East while in college. He began his foreign service career focusing on economic development in war-torn Eastern Europe while working for the U.S. director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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