John Bessler Wiki

John Bessler was born on October 23, 1967, and from the USA. He is an American attorney and academic and the spouse of Amy Klobuchar who is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota.

She is the member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), Minnesota’s affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County attorney. Then, in February 2019 she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 election.

John Bessler Career

He is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Since 2009, he has taught at the University of Baltimore School of Law and in 2014 he became the faculty member.

He has also taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, the George Washington University Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, Rutgers School of Law, and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

Then, he clerked for U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. “Jack” Mason of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota and practiced law full-time for many years in the area of civil litigation. Later, he was awarded the University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Faculty Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity.

He has written ten books, six on the subject of capital punishment, two on the origins of American law, one on the craft of writing, and a biography of the eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Cesare Beccaria. Two of Bessler’s books, Death in the Dark: Midnight Executions in America and Legacy of Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minnesota, were Minnesota Book Award finalists.

He also authored Writing for Life: The Craft of Writing for Everyday Life and his most recent book is The Birth of American Law: An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution (Carolina Academic Press, 2014), which discusses the influence of the Italian jurist and philosopher Cesare Beccaria on the founders of the United States.

John Bessler Age

How old is John Bessler? He was born on October 23, 1967, and from the USA and he is 52 years old as of 2019. However, there is not much information about his father, mother, and siblings.

He completed his education from Loyola Catholic School in Mankato, Minnesota, and received his B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota, J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, M.F.A. in creative writing from Hamline University and his M.St. in international human rights law from Oxford University.

Then, he studied international human rights law at Oxford University and wrote articles for the Indiana Law Journal and the Arkansas Law Review.

John Bessler Wife

He is married to Amy Klobuchar in 1993 and they have a daughter, Abigail Klobuchar Bessler, who graduated from Yale University and works as a legislative director for New York councilman Keith Powers.

Klobuchar is a member of the United Church of Christ. In an Interview with Elle.com Amy said there were major concerns after their daughter’s birth “She was sick for so long, it was really scary,” and added “That’s part of why we had one child. But she’s gotten better every year. We don’t even think about it anymore.”

John Bessler Net Worth

Estimated Net Worth of him is $18 Millon USD as of 2019. He stands 6 feet tall and weighs around 81KG.