Jon corzine

Corzine ran for a second term as governor but lost to Republican Chris Christie. Corzine , Sr. After completing high school at Taylorville High School, [ 4 ] where he had been the football quarterback and basketball captain , [ 5 ] he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign , where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity , and graduated in , earning Phi Beta Kappa honors.

In , he enrolled in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business , from which he received a Master of Business Administration degree in Corzine worked at BancOhio until , when he moved his family to New Jersey and was hired as a bond trader for Goldman Sachs.

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He became a partner in , and a member of the management committee in During his leadership, Corzine oversaw the firm's expansion into Asia and was instrumental in leading the transition of the firm from a private partnership to a public company. Corzine also chaired a presidential commission on capital budgeting for Bill Clinton [ 15 ] and served as Chairman of the United States Department of the Treasury 's borrowing committee.

Corzine has participated in meetings of the Bilderberg Group , a network of leaders in the fields of politics, business and banking —, , , and Corzine is a member of Kappa Beta Phi. Despite initially trailing behind his opponent in the Democratic primary by 30 percentage points, [ 25 ] Corzine won the nomination by 16 points. He later attributed his successful primary run to pollster Bob Shrum who convinced him to run not as "a seasoned investment banker and job creator" but as a "liberal progressive".

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He was sworn into the Senate in January During the campaign, Corzine refused to release his income tax return records. He claimed an interest in doing so, but he cited a confidentiality agreement with Goldman Sachs. Skeptics argued that Corzine should have followed the example of his predecessor Robert Rubin , who converted his equity stake into debt upon leaving Goldman.

Corzine campaigned for state government programs including universal health care , universal gun registration , mandatory public preschool, and more taxpayer funding for college education.