Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine began his political career as a city councilman in Richmond, Virginia, in 1994. He then was voted the city's mayor, was elected lieutenant governor for the state of Virginia in 2002, and assumed the governorship in 2006. Before his election to the U.S. Senate in 2012, Kaine was chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
In Pictures: Tim Kaine Through the Years
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Democratic senate candidate former Gov. Timothy Kaine, and his wife Anne Holton, right, celebrates his win over Republican George Allen during his victory party in Richmond, Nov. 7, 2012.
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Sen. Tim Kaine, left, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, gestures during a round table discussion on gun violence, Jan. 25, 2013, at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
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Sen. Tim Kaine, center, speaks as Senate Democrats gather outside the Capitol to urge Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and other House Republicans, to break the impasse on a funding bill and stop the government shutdown that is now in its second week, Oct. 9, 2013, in Washington, D.C.
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Sen. Tim Kaine, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern, Southern and Central Asian Affairs, second from right, speaks as Heba Sawan, left, wipes away tears during a news conference with sister Amineh Sawan, right, and Anas al-Dabas, second from left, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Feb. 6, 2014. The Sawan sisters were survivors of the August 2013 chemical weapons attack in Moadamiya, Syria, that left more than 1,200 Syrians dead and many more wounded.