Chris Van Hollen's Net Worth

How much is U.S. Senator Christopher Van Hollen Jr. worth?

In 2014, U.S. Senator Christopher Van Hollen’s net worth was 83% less than the average Senator & 57% less than the average member of Congress. When Maryland Congress Delegation compared his net worth, they found it be 63% less than average.
The Senior House Democrat, Chris Van Hollen has an estimated net worth of $956,008 in 2015. He is slightly wealthier than the average member of Congress and also the seventh among all the members from Maryland. He has 16 assets after totaling its net worth is in between $610,000 to $1,302,000.
Christopher Van Hollen Jr. served as U.S. Representatives for the Maryland's 8th Congressional District serving since 2003. He is the member of the Democratic party. In 1990's he has been in Maryland House of Delegates. From 1994-2002 he was in Maryland State Senate & Since January 3rd, 2017 to present date he is the junior U.S. Senator from Maryland.

Christopher Van Hollen's Early Political Career

Chris Van Hollen worked as the legislative assistant for defense & foreign policy to U.S Senator Charles Mathias, A Republican from Maryland, from 1985 to 1987. He was also the staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations(1987-1989), & a legislative advisor for federal affairs to Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer(1989-1991). He was admitted to Maryland bar in 1990 & joined the law firm of Arent Fox. Shortly after 2016 election.Van Hollen was selected as the Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for 2018 cycle.
He has received federal funding for the numbers of local interest projects like transportation initiatives, educational programs, homeland security & community development projects. In 2006, Van Hollen formed a Congressional Caucus on the Netherlands with Dutch-born Republican representative Pete Hoekstra. The goal is to promote the relationship between U.S. & Netherlands, remembering the Dutch role in establishing New York & the United States. In 2014, Van Hollen introduced a bill which establishes a green bank for the financing of Clean Energy & Energy Efficiency project, the same bill was also presented in 2009.

Early Life, Education & Career

Christopher Van Hollen was born on January 10th, 1959 in Karachi, Pakistan. His father was the foreign service officer who served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs & U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka & Maldives, his mother worked for Central Intelligence Agency & the State Department, where she served as the chief of the intelligence bureau for South Asia. He spent his early life in Pakistan, Turkey & Sri Lanka. Returned to the United States, for his High School & attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. In 1982, Van Hollen graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy. He still continued his studies at Harvard University, where he post-graduated with a Master Of Public Policy degree, concentrating in national security studies, from the John F. Kennedy of Government in 1985. He earned a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Centre in 1990.
In his personal life, Van Hollen & his wife Katherine live in the town of Kensington with their 3 children, Anna, Nicholas & Alexander. Van Hollen is of Dutch descent.