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Rush Dew Holt, Jr. (born October 15, 1948) is chief executive officer and executive publisher of the ''Science'' family of journals. Holt was the U.S. Representative for from 1999 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party and son of former Senator Rush D. Holt, Sr. He worked as a professor of public policy and physics, and during his tenure in Congress he was one of two physicists and the only Quaker there. Holt has consistently been ranked among the most liberal Representatives in Congress. Holt sought the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in the 2013 special primary election to fill the seat of U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, who died in office on June 3, 2013. He lost the nomination to Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Holt announced on February 18, 2014 that he would not seek re-election in 2014. == Early life and education == Rush D. Holt was born to Rush D. Holt, Sr. (1905-1955), who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia (1935–1941), and his wife, Helen Louise Froelich Holt (1913-2015), the first woman to be appointed Secretary of State of West Virginia (1957–1959).〔 〕 Holt Sr. was the youngest person ever to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, at age 29. He died of cancer when Rush was six years old. Holt graduated from the Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1966, then later graduated with a B.A. in physics from Carleton College in 1970, and later received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from New York University in 1981. The title of his doctoral dissertation was "Calcium absorption lines and solar activity: a systematic program of observations."〔Holt's doctoral dissertation is available from University Microfilms International as document number (8127915 )〕 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「Rush D. Holt, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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