Tom Cotton

Quick Facts

Net Worth: $4 Million
Name: Tom Cotton
Salary: $185,000
Date of Birth: May 13, 1977
Height: 1.80 meters
Profession: US Senator
Nationality: American

Tom Cotton is an American politician and lawyer who has been the junior United States Senator from Arkansas since 2015. He was a Republican who served in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015.

What is the net worth and salary of Tom Cotton?

Tom Cotton is entitled for a salary of $185,00 as a United States Senator. In addition to his salary, Tom Cotton is entitled to a travel allowance and other benefits has a net worth of $4 million. He will be accompanied at all times by two security people as part of his employment. The salary and all of these extra benefits were factored into Tom Cotton’s net worth.

Tom Cotton Net Worth

Net Worth $4 Million
Assets $1 Million
Liabilities & Loans $210,000
Investments $2 Million
Senator Salary $185,000
Business Income $940,000

Assets and Investments of Tom Cotton

Tom Cotton has four real estate properties and three automobiles. His assets  include approximately $500,000 in cash reserves. Tom Cotton has a $1 million investing portfolio consisting of six stocks.

Automobiles

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  • Lincoln Aviator
  • Tesla
  • Ford F150

Wiki/Bio, Childhood and Education

Thomas Bryant Cotton was born in Dardanelle, Arkansas, on May 13, 1977. His father, Thomas Leonard “Len” Cotton, worked for the Arkansas Department of Health as a district supervisor. He attended Dardanelle High School, where he was a member of the local and regional basketball teams; measuring 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall, he was generally assigned to center.

After graduating from high school in 1995, Cotton got accepted to Harvard College. He majored in government at Harvard and served on the editorial board of The Harvard Crimson, often dissenting from the liberal majority.

Cotton was admitted into a master’s program at Claremont Graduate University after graduating from Harvard College in 1998. He quit in 1999, claiming that academic life was “too sedentary,” and enrolled at Harvard Law School instead.

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Tom Cotton Military service

Cotton enrolled in the United States Army on January 11, 2005. In March 2005, he enrolled in Officer Candidate School (OCS) and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in June. He finished the United States Army Ranger Course.

Cotton was sent to Baghdad as a platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in May 2006. He headed a 41-man air assault infantry platoon in the 506th Infantry Regiment in Iraq, where he planned and executed daily combat patrols.

Political Career of Tom Cotton

Cotton became a vociferous critic of the Obama administration’s foreign and domestic policy as a freshman. He voted in favor of legislation to repeal the 2013 statutory pay adjustment for federal employees, which would have blocked a 0.5 percent pay rise for all federal employees from taking effect in February 2013.

Cotton accused Obama of providing a “false option” between the JCPOA and war. He was  chastised in certain media sites for underestimating the costs of military action against Iran.

Cotton and Mike Pompeo stated on July 21, 2015, that they had discovered secret side agreements between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on processes for inspecting and verifying Iran’s nuclear activity under the JCPOA.