Rick Santorum
Richard John "Rick" Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is an American lawyer and politician. He was born in Winchester, Virginia and is of Italian American descent.[1][2][3] He was raised in West Virginia, Butler, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. He went to college and to law school at Penn State University. Soon after, he became a lawyer in Pittsburgh.
Santorum served in the House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995. With the 1994 elections that elected many Republicans, he was elected to the United States Senate. He served in the Senate for two terms, from 1995 to 2007. In the Senate, Santorum was known for having very conservative views about abortion and gay marriage.[4] Santorum lost in the 2006 election for a third term as a Senator to State Treasurer Bob Casey, Jr and C. Richard Semple II. After being in the Senate, he worked in a think tank and for Fox News.
In 2011 and 2012, Santorum ran for President of the United States in the Republican primaries. He based his campaign on social issues. He dropped out of the race in 2012. Today, Santorum writes a political column for the conservative news website World Net Daily. Santorum has seven kids.
References [change]
- ↑ "Santorum genealogy". Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/senators/santorum.htm. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
- ↑ "The Senator's Biography". Santorum's Senate website. Archived from the original on December 30, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20061230084254/http://santorum.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutRickSantorum.Biography&CFID=11631531&CFTOKEN=17630065. Retrieved December 30, 2006.
- ↑ "The Pennsylvania manual - Google Books". Books.google.com. 2011-01-06. http://books.google.com/books?id=-BcYAQAAMAAJ&q=Catherine+%22Keane+%22+%22Dughi+%22&dq=Catherine+%22Keane+%22+%22Dughi+%22&hl=en. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
- ↑ Loughlin, Sean (April 22, 2003). "Santorum under fire for comments on homosexuality". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/04/22/santorum.gays/. Retrieved March 13, 2008.
