Michael Shumway "Mike" Lee was born on June 4, 1971 in Mesa, Arizona. He is an American politician and lawyer who is the junior United States Senator from Utah. A member of the Republican Party, Lee has served in the U.S. Senate since January 3, 2011. Lee is a graduate of Brigham Young University (BYU). He began his career as a clerk for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah before serving as a clerk for future Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who was then a judge on the Third Circuit Court. He then entered private practice, with the Sidley Austin law firm, before coming back to his home state and working as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, from 2002 to 2005. Lee then joined the administration of Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, serving as the general counsel from 2005 to 2006.
Lee ran for the U.S. Senate in 2010. He won the general election on November 2, 2010 with 62 percent of the vote.
He made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2015 with his title Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America's Founding Document and in 2017 with Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government.
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