Early Political Career
Torricelli was an assistant to the Governor of New Jersey Brendan Byrne from 1975 to 1977. In 1978 he served on the Staff of Vice President Walter Mondale, and managed the Carter-Mondale campaign in the Illinois primary, at the age of 28. At the 1980 Democratic National Convention, he served the Carter-Mondale campaign on the Rules Committee. In 1982, Torricelli leveraged his political contacts into a run for U.S. Congress, defeating incumbent Republican Harold Hollenbeck 53% to 46%.
Torricelli served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1996 representing New Jersey's 9th congressional district, and then as a U.S. Senator from 1997 to 2003.
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