Background
He is the grandson of the late Senator Claiborne Pell. Pell was born to Herbert C. Pell III and Eugenia Stillman Diehl Pell on November 17, 1981, in Tucson, Arizona.
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Clay Pell
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Pell attended The Thacher School and graduated in 2000. He also attended School Year Abroad"s schools in Zaragoza, Spain (1999) and Beijing, China (2001).
Career
He is a lieutenant and judge advocate in the United States Coast Guard, and served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education in the United States Department of Education. Pell ran an unsuccessful campaign for the 2014 Democratic Party nomination for Governor of Rhode Island, which he lost to Rhode Island State Treasurer Gina Raimondo. He graduated from Harvard College in 2005 with high honors and a bachelor"s degree in Social Studies.
Pell went on to graduate from Georgetown University Law Center with a Juris Doctor Pell has received a Citation in Modern Standard Arabic.
He graduated first in his class from the Coast Guard Direct Commission Officer School.
Pell is a lieutenant and judge advocate in the United States Coast Guard. Pell served as Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Staff, and was a White House Fellow from 2011 to 2012. In 2013, Pell served for six months as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of International and Foreign Language Education at the United States Department of Education.
On January 27, 2014, Pell confirmed he would run for Governor of Rhode Island in the 2014 election.
Achievements
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Pell is the grandson of the Senator Claiborne Pell and Nuala Pell (the granddaughter of A&P grocery chain founder George Huntington Hartford). His support for language education and cultural proficiency was recognized by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages which presented him with its Advocacy Award in 2014—an award Pell"s grandfather received in 1988. Pell placed third in the Democratic primary, which was won by Gina Raimondo.
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