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David Alfred Perdue Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States Senator for Georgia since 2015. A Republican, he is a first cousin of United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, a former governor of Georgia. He became Georgia's senior senator after Johnny Isakson resigned on December 31, 2019.Perdue's business career began with more than a decade as a management consultant at Kurt Salmon Associates.