Tom Perriello

Tom Perriello
Official portrait, 2024
United States Special Envoy for Sudan
Assumed office
February 26, 2024
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byOffice established
United States Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes
In office
July 6, 2015 – December 23, 2016
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byRuss Feingold
Succeeded byJ. Peter Pham
Special Representative for the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review
In office
February 24, 2014 – July 5, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byDavid McKean
Succeeded byLaurence D. Wohlers[1]
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Virginia's 5th district
In office
January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011
Preceded byVirgil Goode
Succeeded byRobert Hurt
Personal details
Born
Thomas Stuart Price Perriello

(1974-10-09) October 9, 1974 (age 50)
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
EducationYale University (BA, JD)

Thomas Stuart Price Perriello (born October 9, 1974) is an American attorney, diplomat, and politician. For over four years until July 2023, Perriello served as the executive director for U.S. Programs at the Open Society Foundations.[2]

Perriello ran for Virginia's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in 2008. He narrowly defeated six-term Republican incumbent Virgil H. Goode Jr. by 727 votes out of over 317,000 cast. At the time he served, the district included much of Southside Virginia and stretched north to Charlottesville. Perriello was defeated in the 2010 election by Republican state senator Robert Hurt.[3]

In February 2014, he was appointed United States Special Representative for the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, serving until July 2015. From July 2015 to December 2016, he was Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, succeeding former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold.[4] Perriello ran for the Democratic nomination in the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election, but lost to Ralph Northam.[5]

On February 26, 2024, Perriello was appointed as U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan.

  1. ^ "Wohlers, Laurence D". www.state.gov. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
  2. ^ Stein, Sam; Stokols, Eli; Egan, Lauren (April 18, 2023). "Soros Foundation's top man moves on". POLITICO. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  3. ^ E.J. Dionne Jr. (November 3, 2010). "The Perriello Way". The Nation. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
  4. ^ "Perriello, Thomas". State.gov. February 24, 2014. Archived from the original on April 12, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  5. ^ "Live Election Results: Virginia Primaries". The New York Times. June 13, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017.

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