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Thomas Bryant "Tom" Cotton〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Courier – Your Messenger for the River Valley – Patterson )〕 (born May 13, 1977) is an American politician who is the junior United States Senator from Arkansas. A member of the Republican Party, Cotton has been serving in the Senate since January 3, 2015. In August 2013, Cotton announced his intentions to run for the United States Senate in a challenge against two-term Democratic Senator Mark Pryor. Cotton won in an unopposed Republican primary and prevailed in the general election, obtaining 56% of the vote to Pryor's 39%. At the age of , he is the youngest current U.S. Senator. ==Early life and education== Cotton was born in Dardanelle, Arkansas, on May 13, 1977, son of Thomas Leonard Cotton and his wife Avis (née Bryant) Cotton, where he grew up on the family farm.〔(New Arkansas Rep. Cotton Draws Spotlight; 113th Congress Sworn In ), ''The Times Record'', swtimes.com; accessed November 5, 2014.〕 Cotton graduated from Dardanelle High School in June 1995.〔(Electing Fiscal Conservatives ), combatveteransforcongress.org; accessed November 5, 2014.〕 He attended Harvard College, where he wrote for the ''Harvard Crimson'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Writer: Tom Cotton )〕 graduating in 1998. In the summer of 1997, Cotton attended the Publius Fellowship program of the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Publius Fellowship Undergraduate Summer Program )〕 He graduated from Harvard in 1998, three years after enrolling.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/the-making-of-a-conservative-superstar/380307/ )〕 In 1998, Cotton was accepted into a master's degree at Claremont Graduate University. He left in 1999, saying that he found academic life "too sedentary", enrolling in Harvard Law School,〔 where he received his J.D. degree in June 2002.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Cotton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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