• Office Sought: Senator, Colorado
• Birth Date: July 18, 1950
• Occupation: Educator
• Spouse: Maggie Fox
• Religion: not affiliated
• Web site: http://markudall.house.gov/

Education

Williams College, BA

Offices and positions held

• Colorado House of Representatives (1997-1999)
• U.S. House of Representatives (1999-present)

Mark E. Udall was born in Tucson, Ariz., and resides in Boulder, Colo. He graduated from Canyon Del Oro, in Tucson and received a bachelor's degree in American civilization from Williams College in 1972.

He was executive director of Colorado Outward Bound School from 1985 to 1995. He is a veteran of more than two dozen worldwide mountain expeditions, and is an accomplished photographer, skier, kayaker, golfer and runner.

He was elected to the Colorado House in 1996. In 1998, he was first elected to the U.S. House.

Udall is the son of former U.S. Rep. Morris Udall, who was part of Arizona's Congressional delegation and was a candidate for president in 1976. His father helped spearhead some of the nation's landmark environmental laws. His uncle, Stewart Udall, was interior secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

Mark Udall and his wife, attorney Maggie Fox, have two children, Jed and Tess.