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Kolkata-born Raj Mukherji elected to New Jersey state assembly

New Jersey(US): Kolkata-born Raj Mukherji, a former Jersey City deputy mayor, has been elected to the New Jersey State Assembly to become the first-ever Bengali state legislator in the US.Democrat Mukherji, 29, currently chairman of

IANS Updated on: November 07, 2013 21:10 IST


From March 2012 through June 2013, Mukherji served as one of the two deputy mayors of Jersey City, New Jersey's second largest city.

He also founded an internet consulting and software development company while in middle school.

Following the Sep 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York, Mukherji joined the US Marines at age 17, where he served in military intelligence for the Marine Corps Reserve.

At 19, he co-founded a public affairs firm that he grew into the state's third-largest lobbying firm.

At age 24, Mukherji was appointed the youngest commissioner and chairman in the history of the Jersey City Housing Authority.
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