Role Politician Name P.G. Sittenfeld | Website Official website Religion Roman Catholicism | |
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Full Name Alexander Paul GeorgeSittenfeld Alma mater Princeton UniversityMagdalen College, OxfordCity University London Education Profiles | ||
Getting to know PG Sittenfeld, Cincinnati City Councilman
Alexander Paul George "P.G." Sittenfeld (born October 1, 1984) is an American politician who has been a member of the City Council of Cincinnati since 2011, when he became the youngest person (age 27) ever elected to the position. He is a Democrat. In January 2015, he announced his 2016 bid for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Rob Portman. On March 15, 2016, Sittenfeld lost the Senate Democratic primary election to former Ohio Governor, Ted Strickland.
Contents
- Getting to know PG Sittenfeld Cincinnati City Councilman
- PG Sittenfeld announces Ohio Senate run
- Early life and education
- Career
- Cincinnati City Council
- US Senate campaign
- Personal life
- References
PG Sittenfeld announces Ohio Senate run
Early life and education
Sittenfeld was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother, Elizabeth "Betsy" Curtis (Bascom), is an art history teacher and librarian at Seven Hills School, a private school in Cincinnati, and his father, Paul George Sittenfeld, is an investment adviser. He and his sister, author Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld, attended Seven Hills School. His father is Jewish and his mother is Catholic, and he was raised Catholic. He attended Princeton University (Bachelor of Arts in English and American Studies, 2007), where he was elected president of the freshman class, and then attended graduate school at Magdalen College, Oxford (receiving his Master of Studies in English and American Studies, 2009) and the City University London (Master of Arts in Nonfiction Creative Writing, 2010 with distinction) as a Marshall Scholar. He worked as a summer intern at Google and Time.
Career
Sittenfeld is co-founder and assistant director of the Community Learning Center Institute in Cincinnati. He also works at DataRole, a technology startup company in downtown Cincinnati.
Cincinnati City Council
In 2011, at age 27, Sittenfeld became the youngest person ever elected to Cincinnati City Council. He received the second most votes of the 23 candidates.
He was re-elected to the council in 2013 and was the leading vote-getter among the 21 candidates.
U.S. Senate campaign
On January 22, 2015, Sittenfeld announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat held by current Republican United States Senator Rob Portman in 2016. Sittenfeld lost in the Democratic Party primary to former Ohio Governor, Ted Strickland.
Throughout his primary campaign, Sittenfeld focused heavily on gun control issues, claiming he would support reforms such as a federal ban on assault weapons and more comprehensive background checks for gun purchasers. On January 28, 2016, Sittenfeld announced a proposed amendment to the Ohio legislature to restore home-rule authority on gun control. His proposal would allow city governments within Ohio to enact their own gun control laws, a power which was removed by a 2006 state law.
Personal life
Sittenfeld serves as a board member of the Freestore Foodbank and Breakthrough Cincinnati. P.G. Sittenfeld is now married as of June 4 2016 to Dr. Sarah Coyne.