About Me
Tom A. Coburn, M.D. was elected to the Senate in 2004. Tom and his wife, Carolyn, a former Miss Oklahoma, were married in 1968 and have three children and four grandchildren. They are members of Muskogee's New Community Church. Prior to his election to the Senate, Tom represented Oklahoma's Second Congressional District from 1995 through 2001. In 1970, Tom graduated with an accounting degree from Oklahoma State University. From 1970 to 1978, Tom served as manufacturing manager at the Ophthalmic Division of Coburn Optical Industries in Colonial Heights, Virginia. After the family business was sold, Tom changed the course of his life by returning to school to become a physician. Tom has personally delivered more than 4,000 babies.