Who is Tommy? He died Dec 30,2020 and Who is His Dad Rep.Jamie Raskin
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Who is congressman Jamie Raskin?
Jamie Raskin, 58, is an American lawyer and politician who is the U.S. Representative from Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017.
He is a Democrat, and was a member of the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016.
Prior to his election to Congress, he was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he co-founded and directed the LL.M. program on Law and Government and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy project.
What happened to his son Tommy Raskin?
Tommy Raskin, 25, died by suicide on December 31, 2020, according to reports.
He was a student at Harvard Law School and a graduate of Amherst College.
His father announced his death on New Year's Eve and said in a statement that he was launching a memorial fund in Tommy Raskin's name that will benefit the charities he championed, including the Helen Keller Institute and Animal Outlook.
Jamie and his wife, Sarah Raskin, said their son had "left us this farewell note on New Year's Eve day: 'Please forgive me. My illness won today. Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me. All my love, Tommy.' "
They described their son as having a "perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind".
They added he was "tortured later in his 20s" by the "disease called depression”
. The Raskin family on an outing together
Who is his wife Sarah Bloom Raskin?
Sarah Bloom Raskin, 59, served as the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation from 2007 to 2010.
She was nominated by President Barack Obama to the Federal Reserve Board on April 28, 2010.
Also in 2010, she was sworn in as a governor of the Federal Reserve Board by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
She then went on to serve as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from March 19, 2014, to January 20, 2017.
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