BIOGRAPHY

Jim Himes represents Connecticut’s 4th Congressional District, which includes Norwalk, in the U.S. House of Representatives and is serving his ninth term. He is the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and sits on the Financial Services Committee.

Born in Lima, Peru, to American parents, Himes spent part of his childhood in Peru and Colombia before his family settled in New Jersey. He graduated from Harvard, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, worked for 12 years at Goldman Sachs, and later ran the New York City office of Enterprise Community Partners. He served on Greenwich’s housing authority and its board of estimate and taxation before his first election to Congress in 2008, and lives in Greenwich with his wife, Mary.