Editing Mark Udall (section)

{{Short description|American politician (born 1950)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Mark Udall
|image        = MarkUdall-Senate Portrait.jpg
|caption      = Official portrait, 2009
|jr/sr        = United States Senator
|state        = [[Colorado]]
|term_start   = January 3, 2009
|term_end     = January 3, 2015
|predecessor  = [[Wayne Allard]]
|successor    = [[Cory Gardner]]
|state1       = [[Colorado]]
|district1    = {{ushr|Colorado|2|2nd}}
|term_start1  = January 3, 1999
|term_end1    = January 3, 2009
|predecessor1 = [[David Skaggs]]
|successor1   = [[Jared Polis]]
|state_house2 = Colorado
|district2    = 13th
|term_start2  = January 1997
|term_end2    = January 1999
|predecessor2 = [[Peggy Lamm]]
|successor2   = [[Tom Plant (Colorado politician)|Tom Plant]]
|birth_name   = Mark Emery Udall
|birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1950|7|18}}
|birth_place  = [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]], [[Arizona]], U.S.
|death_date   = 
|death_place  = 
|party        = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|spouse       = {{marriage|Maggie Fox|1982}}
|children     = 2
|father       = [[Mo Udall]]
|relatives    = [[Udall family]]
|education    = [[Williams College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
|signature    = Mark Udall Signature.svg
|module       = {{Listen|pos=center|embed=yes|filename=Senator Mark Udall Questions Thomas Tidwell, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service.ogg|title=Mark Udall's voice|type=speech|description=Udall questions [[Thomas Tidwell]], chief of the [[United States Forest Service|U.S. Forest Service]] at a hearing of the [[United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources|Senate Energy Committee]]<br/>Recorded February 6, 2014}}
}}
'''Mark Emery Udall''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|j|u|d|ɔː|l}} {{Respell|YOO|dawl}}; born July 18, 1950) is an American politician who served as a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Colorado]] from 2009 to 2015. A member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], he previously served in the [[United States House of Representatives]], representing {{ushr|CO|2}}. Before being elected to [[United States Congress|Congress]], he represented parts of [[Boulder, Colorado]], in the [[Colorado House of Representatives]].

Throughout his career, he has proposed legislation to support [[renewable energy]], expand [[List of areas in the United States National Park System|national parks]], and protect [[natural resources]]. Born in [[Tucson, Arizona]], he is the son of former U.S. Representative [[Mo Udall]] and the nephew of former U.S. Representative [[Stewart Udall]]. A member of the [[Udall family]], a [[Western United States|western]] [[List of United States political families|American political family]], his relatives include [[New Mexico]]'s [[Tom Udall]] and [[Utah]]'s [[Mike Lee]]. Udall ran for reelection in [[2014 United States Senate election in Colorado|2014]] to a second term in the U.S. Senate, but was narrowly defeated by Republican challenger [[Cory Gardner]].