She graduated from Yale in 2017 and now works in New York City. After this was discovered, I had a biopsy at Piper Breast Center in Minneapolis, and then learned that I had Stage 1A breast cancer.. Abigail Klobuchar Bessler is the only daughter of Amy Klobuchar and John Bessler, who is currently working as a Legal Intern in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He kept having a temperature and a bad, bad cough and when he started coughing up blood he got a test and a chest X-ray and they checked him into a hospital in Virginia because of a variety of things including very low oxygen levels, which havent really improved, Klobuchar said in a Medium post. 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Left: The virus that put John Bessler in the hospital the virus that left him coughing up blood after days of fever in his apartment, alone was at first mistaken for the common cold. Gabe Schneider is MinnPosts Washington correspondent. In a Medium blog post, she writes that in her first 100 days as president she would "enact an ambitious, optimistic agenda to improve our health care, combat climate change, pursue economic justice and shared prosperity, and build a stronger democracy and safer world. View our online Press Pack. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. Bessler was hospitalized in Virginia on Friday. 4. She co-led a team of ten teaching assistants for Professor Amar's undergraduate Constitutional Law course. She has received Frank M. Patterson Prize from Yale Univerisity Political Science Department for the best essay on the American Political System. Klobuchar wrote, "Happy anniversary John! Email us at exclusive@the-sun.com or call 212 416 4552. On the day we got married we went canoeing in the morning. I mean, he was quarantining himself. MinnPost's in-depth, independent news is free for all to access no paywall or subscriptions. He also edited Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's 2016 book, Against the Death Penalty. "I'm ready to spread that, and help her in any way I can.". This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Klobuchar said that doctors found small white spots during a routine mammogram back in February, which led to her having a biopsy that diagnosed her with Stage 1A breast cancer. Bessler also worked as an intern for the Center for American Progress from May-July 2014. Klobuchars insurance policy required the Bessler, 52, is a law professor at the University of Baltimore. Her role in the Clinton campaign reads. He is also an author. Finally he realized that maybe couldnt do that from the hospital with coronavirus. You can read more of her work at amandaelizabethmitchell.com or follow her on Instagram and Twitter @lochnessmanda. She produced digital content and politics stories for CBS News in her five-week internship. Happy Mothers Day! Klobuchar, who spoke with PEOPLE in between work on the pending $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill, says she was happy with the federal governments changing response to the virus. The former presidential candidate told Gosk she wasnt nervous until Besslers shortness of breath became noticeable in their phone conversations and he began coughing up blood. Klobuchar wrote on Twitter. She was born in 1995. As a mom to one daughter, 24-year-old Abigail Klobuchar Bessler, the senator often credits motherhood with helping to jump start her career in politics. Many families in America are experiencing this now and things that are much much worse, Klobuchar said on a press call this morning. Our wedding included a canoe trip for guests and a discounted cake from a bakery in the St. Paul bus depot (I said no to the plastic swans). Some of the information in this story may have changed after publication. His 2014 book, The Birth of American Law: An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution, was the recipient of the 2015 Scribes Book Award, an annual award given out by The American Society of Legal Writers for "the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year.". My daughter gives me reports, she talks to him as well. Daughter Abigail Klobuchar Bessler and husband John Bessler, right, looked on as Sen. Amy Klobuchar spoke to supporters in Concord, New Hampshire, in Klobuchar posted a statement on Medium revealing that she was previously diagnosed with breast cancer. Their daughter had problems after she was born. But I cant, and so you delve into your work, and then I talk to him. She completed her Ph.D. degree from Yale Law School in 2024. She writes weekly memoranda to the Chief of Complex and Affirmative Litigation at the San Francisco City Attorney's Office. ? Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheSunUS and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSunUS, Love Island fans' horror as axed Olivia handed power to destroy TWO other stars, Strictly star bags life-changing EastEnders role as part of new family, Baby's body found after huge search as cops quiz Constance Marten & lover, Bianca Gascoigne reveals very unusual name for her newborn daughter, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Klobuchar was born in Plymouth, Minnesota, and shes a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. Then I would call and Id say, Take your temperature, and then it was always over 100 degrees.. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her husband, John Bessler, opened up this week about his battle with the novel coronavirus which left him coughing up blood and hospitalized for five days. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar is slowly making gains as a potential front-runner in the Democratic presidential election. Klobuchar stayed Editor of the Yale Daily News Magazine, 2015-16 She was born with a severe health condition and had to be fed through a nose tube. "I'm excited for, like I said, what she's campaigning on and the issues she cares about," she said. Klobuchar says he immediately quarantined himself and stopped teaching law in Baltimore. 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For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. Former Democratic presidential candidate and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has announced that her husband, John Bessler, has the coronavirus disease. But the senator has talked to her dad, who is in good spirits. The latest: "Thanks to all who sent kind words and prayers for my husband John," Klobuchar said in a statement. A post shared by Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) on Feb 9, 2019 at 1:45pm PST. Bessler is Klobuchars only child. Abigail Klobuchar Bessler's parents combined net worth is around $3 million. What else, after all, could it have been? He had But she said not being able to visit him in the hospital was against everything you want to believe.. He was coughing really badly, Klobuchar says of her husband. In three months, the virus has spread around the world. We love you! Senator Amy Klobuchar waves to the crowd with her husband John Bessler and daughter Abigail Bessler after announcing her candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., February 10, 2019. During Klobuchars campaign for president, he was often by her side. She was also responsible for managing a class of 130 students and individually taught and mentioned a section of 14. She led the effort to pass landmark pieces of legislation to end human trafficking and combat the opioid and fentanyl epidemic. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Amy and John got married in 1993. His coronavirus test, taken before he went into the hospital, came back positive on Monday morning. Will you help us keep it this way by supporting our nonprofit newsroom with a tax-deductible donation today? For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. View our online Press Pack. Klobuchar said in the video, Its a great time for family, but at the same time we know what serious work we have ahead.. As expected, he's very well educated. Blesser shared how she felt about her mother's presidential campaign in an interview with CBS Minnesota. Prior to serving in the Senate, she worked for eight years as the attorney for Hennepin County, which is the largest prosecutor's office in Minnesota. His most recent book, The Baron and the Marquis: Liberty, Tyranny, and the Enlightenment Maxim That Can Remake American Criminal Justice, was published in January 2019. He has also taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, the George Washington University Law School, where he specialized in death penalty issues, the Georgetown University Law Center, Rutgers School of Law, and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. A post shared by Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) on May 12, 2019 at 9:16am PDT. 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