• Office Sought: Representative, Kentucky (3)
• Birth Date: Nov. 4, 1947
• Occupation: Columnist, Former Publisher
• Religion: Jewish
• Web site: http://yarmuth.house.gov/

Education

Yale University, BA

John Allan Yarmuth was born in Louisville, Ky. He graduated from high school in 1965 and attended Yale University, earning a bachelor's degree in American studies.

Then a Republican, Yarmuth became an aide to GOP U.S. Sen. Marlow Cook.

Yarmuth founded Louisville Today magazine in 1976, starting a six-year stint at the magazine.

Saying it no longer welcomed diverse views, Yarmuth left the Republican Party in 1985 and joined the Democratic Party.

After working at the University of Louisville and a home health care company, Yarmuth founded the weekly alternative publication LEO in 1990, where he was a regular columnist. LEO was sold in 2003, but Yarmuth continued writing columns for the paper until becoming a candidate for Congress.

Yarmuth was elected to Congress in 2006, riding a wave of opposition to President Bush and the Iraq war to oust a five-term Republican incumbent.

Yarmuth and his wife, Catherine, have one son.