Early Life, Education, and Law Career
Bob Menendez was born in New York City to Cuban immigrants who left their homeland a few months earlier, in 1953 . His father, Mario Menendez, was a carpenter, and his mother, Evangelina, a seamstress. The family subsequently moved to neighboring New Jersey where, growing up in Union City, he graduated from Union Hill High School, where he was student body president.
After a B.A. in political science from Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, he earned his Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers School of Law in Newark, in 1979. He is a brother of Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1980 and became a lawyer in private practice.
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