Christopher Hughes is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Andrew McCollum. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic from 2012 to 2016. As of 2019, he is a co-chair of the Economic Security Project. He published Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn. In May 2019, he published an op-ed in the New York Times, calling for the Break Up of Facebook and government regulation of content on it. He endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He was portrayed by actor Patrick Mapel in the 2010 film The Social Network.
Chris Hughes was born on November 26, 1983, in Hickory, North Carolina. He holds American nationality and belongs to White ethnicity. His birth sign is Sagittarius. He was raised as an evangelical Lutheran. He applied in different boarding schools at the age of 14 and got selected by Philip Academy with a scholarship and graduate. Later, he took admission in Harvard where he met Mark Zuckerberg. The duo decided to share a room.
Chris Hughes was born to a father named Arlen Hughes and a mother named Brenda Hughes. His father was a paper salesman and his mother was an educator in a school. He is the only child of his parents.
Chris Hughes height of 5 feet 11 inches (1.80m) tall and body weight is unknown. There is no information about his body measurements.
Chris Hughes is a married man. He married Sean Eldridge, political director of Freedom to Marry. They announced their engagement in January 2011 at a reception in support of Freedom to Marry. They married on June 30, 2012. The wedding was much talked about as this was the most intricate gay wedding, New York had ever witnessed. But it seems the glitter and spark has worn out between the power couple over the passing years.
Chris Hughes estimated net worth of $430 million as of 2017 and his salary has not been revealed yet but will be updated soon.