Timothy Michael Kaine was born on 26th February 1958, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, and is a politician in the Democratic Party, since January 2013 representing the state of Virginia in the US Senate. He was Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010, and led the Democratic National Committee (DNC) – the organization of Democratic Party – from 2009 to 2011. He was the Vice Presidential candidate of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with whom he participated in the election defeat in November 2016.
How much is the net worth of Tim Kaine? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $10 million, as of the data given in early 2018.
Tim Kaine Net Worth $10 million
To begin with, he grew up in Overland Park, a city within the Kansas City metropolitan area. He graduated from the University of Missouri majoring in Economics, and later studied Law at the University of Harvard. For nine months he worked as a Catholic missionary in Honduras with the order of the Jesuits, then settled in Virginia and dedicated himself to the private practice of law in the city of Richmond, specializing in the representing people with few housing opportunities. Concurrently he also taught Legal Ethics for six years at the University of Richmond.
Concerning his political career, he was elected a member of the Richmond City Council in 1994, and shortly afterwards, mayor of Richmond. His main achievement as mayor was the Exile Project, which had the support of the National Rifle Association and reduced firearm violence by 40 %. In 2001, Tim Kaine was elected vice-governor of Virginia, with responsibilities including serving as the president of the Virginia State Senate. In 2005, he won election for governor of Virginia as the continuator of then Governor Mark Warner; he promised to keep the fiscal and educational policies of Warner and used the popularity of this to win the election with 52 % of the vote. He did well in Republican areas like Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Prince William County or Loundoun County. As the Richmond Capitol was undergoing renovations, Kaine was sworn in at Williamsburg, the first at the venue since Thomas Jefferson. In March of 2006, after the legislature was unable to pass a budget, Governor Kaine called a special session that did not end until June, with the debate revolving around the financing of transport projects, so in 2007, Kaine amended and signed a plan for transportation financing designed by the Republican majority of the State Assembly. After the shooting that killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, Governor Kaine established an independent investigative commission, and signed an executive order instructing state agencies to intensify efforts to block the sale of arms to hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients of mental health centres. As a Catholic, he opposes partial abortion, and is a member of the pro-democracy organization Democrats For Life of America. He also opposes the death penalty on a personal level, although there have been eight executions in Virginia in the two and a half years he was governor. He has vetoed five projects to expand the death penalty, but his vetoes have always been revoked by the Legislature. Kaine is a member of the National Association of Governors, the Southern Governors Association and the Association of Democratic Governors.
In 2013, he was elected to represent the state of Virginia in the US Senate. In 2016, Clinton and Kaine lost the election against the Republican team of Trump and Pence.
Finally, in the personal life of Tim Kaine, he has been married to Anne Holton, daughter of the former Republican governor of Virginia, Linwood Holton, since 1984; they have three children, and lead an active religious life.
