Jamie Eldridge

James Bradley Eldridge (born August 11, 1973) is an American politician and lawyer. He serves as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate from the Middlesex and Worcester District. Eldridge previously served three terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he sat on the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business, the Joint Committee on Election Laws, and the Joint Committee on Public Service.

Education Eldridge attended the Acton Public Schools and graduated from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in 1991. He was one of the original founders of the school's community service group, Acton Boxborough Community Outreach. He attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and majored in political science. and volunteered in the 1992 Presidential Election, and was elected student body president. During his time at Johns Hopkins, he interned for Congressman Marty Meehan.

Career In his second year of law school, Eldridge managed then-State Representative Pam Resor’s successful re-election campaign in 1998.

From 2001 to 2003 he served on the Acton Housing Authority and the Acton Planning Board.

He received the National Association for Public Interest Law Equal Justice Fellowship; a national two-year fellowship that allows recent law graduates to create their dream public interest project to help the less fortunate.

Eldridge had endorsed Barack Obama for president, and was elected to be a pledged delegate for Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. (District of Middlesex and Worcester) on January 7, 2009.

Eldrige won re-election to the state senate by 57% to 43% on November 2, 2010.

In his current term in the state senate, Senator Eldridge has promised to fight for single-payer healthcare.

On February 28, 2014, Eldridge endorsed Don Berwick for governor in the 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

In January 2016, Eldridge formally endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries. He later served as a delegate for Sanders at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

On August 9, 2017, Eldridge announced that he was considering running for congress in the 2018 election in Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district after Congresswoman Niki Tsongas announced that she would retire at the end of her current term. He later decided not to run for congress and stay in the state senate.

He won re-election on November 6, 2018 defeating Republican challenger Margaret Busse and Independent challenger Terra Friedrichs.

Personal life Eldridge is an Acton, Massachusetts, native and the son of a public school kindergarten teacher and electrical engineer.