Robert Menendez is a veteran American lawyer and politician from New Jersey, president he has served since 2006. As a member of the Democratic Party, he was appointed to the United States Senate by Governor Jon Corzine and later served as President of the United States Senate. External Relations Committee from 2013 to 2015, and again since 2021. 1974, at the age of 20, he was first elected to the education council of the city's school district. He is a graduate of Saint-Pierre University and Rutgers Law School. In 1986, he won the post of mayor of Union City. In 1988, while remaining mayor, he was elected to represent the state's 33rd district in the New Jersey General Assembly and within three years he moved to the New Jersey State Senate, having won a special election to the County Senate in March 1991.

In 2006, he was elected to the United States Senate to represent the state of New Jersey. In February 2013, he was named Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.