page_title: Raja Krishnamoorthi
section_title: Early career
hierarchical_section_title: Raja Krishnamoorthi / Early career
caption_attribution_description: English: Raja Krishnamoorthi and Barack Obama in Raja's childhood home in Peoria in July 2002.
context_page_description: Subramanian Raja Krishnamoorthi is an American businessman and politician who is the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 8th congressional district since 2017. He was elected to succeed Tammy Duckworth, who gave up the seat to successfully run for the U.S. Senate. Krishnamoorthi is a member of the Democratic Party and serves on the House Oversight Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is also Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, and serves as an Assistant Whip and a member of the Speaker's Steering and Policy Committee.
context_section_description: After graduating from Harvard, Krishnamoorthi served as a law clerk for Joan B. Gottschall and worked on Barack Obama's 2000 election campaign for the United States House of Representatives. He also served as an issues director for Obama's 2004 campaign for the United States Senate, and aided in the development of Obama's 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address.
  After being appointed to the Board of the Illinois Housing Development Authority, Krishnamoorthi practiced law and then served as a special assistant attorney general, helping start the state's anti-corruption unit under Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. He served as deputy state treasurer for Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias from 2007 to 2009 and then as Vice-Chairman of the Illinois Innovation Council. He was the president of high-tech small businesses in the Chicago area until he resigned before entering Congress to eliminate any conflicts of interest.
caption: Krishnamoorthi and Barack Obama in July 2002
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