A politician, attorney, former senator and a political commentator, Richard John Santorum has served as a senator for the United States from the year 1995-2007.
He was the third-ranking republican and also was CNN’s senior political commentator.
He has always been someone that has opposed the concept of abortion and condemned the term middle class and also against the use of marijuana both recreationally and medically.
Rick Santorum Net Worth is approximately to $3 million
Rick Santorum’s net worth comes mainly from his rental properties in the area around Penn State University. He has also spent a lot of money on medical care for his children rounding up approximately to $3 million per annum.
Rick Santorum’s early life and education.
Rick Santorum was born on May 10th 1958 in Winchester, Virginia. His parents were Aldo Santorum who was of Italian ancestry and Catherine Santorum who was of Italian and Irish ancestry and worked as an administrative nurse.
Rick Santorum completed his school education in 1976 from Roman Catholic Camel High School.
Rick Santorum graduated with a BA. Degree with honors in political science from Pennsylvania State University. He was also part of the fraternity, Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity.
He went on to gain and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and in 1986 he completed a J.D degree from Dickinson school of law.
Rick Santorum’s journey into Politics.
At the young age of 32, Rick Santorum was chosen to represent Pennsylvania at the U.S. House of representatives. In the year 1993, Rick Santorum along with a small group of republicans protested against the North America free trade agreement and also exposed congress members who were a part of the house banking scandal.
Rick Santorum had an extremely long run as the Senate representing Pennsylvania. His tenure began in the year 1995 and lasted till 2007.
He became the first Senate in the 1994 republican takeover and defeated Democrat, Harris Wofford. Rick Santorum was strong headed on practicing what he preached and he hired five people from welfare, food stamps and the other government aids. Join The Fight was the theme that Rick Santorum had chosen for his 1994 campaign.
In 1996, he went on to serve as the chairman of the Republican task force for welfare reform and also endorsed a short-lived campaign for president for Arlen Specter.
He then went on to be elected again in 2002, this time defeating the congress member Ron Klink. However, in the election that took place in the year 2006, Rick Santorum was defeated by an eighteen per cent margin to the democrat, Bob Casey.
Rick’s post-senate career.
Rick Santorum went on to run for the president of the United States.
In his 2012 campaign to run for the president of the United States, he received the opportunity to make a speech at the Republican National Convention. He went on to speak about his grandfather who has a certain specific visualization of America and how Barack Obama was spoiling this vision and making it a living nightmare.
To conclude his speech, Rick Santorum went on to say “I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all of God’s children—born and unborn—and says that each of us has dignity and all of us have the right to live the American Dream. And without you, America is not keeping faith with that dream. We are stewards of a great inheritance. In November we have a chance to vote for life and liberty, not dependency. A vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will put our country back in the hands of leaders who understand what America can and, for the sake of our children, must be to keep the dream alive.”
Rick’s interest in various business investments.
Rick Santorum was the chairman and CEO of a movie company that made Christmas movies called EchoLight Studios which is located in Dallas. He is also an owner of a part of Plasma Technologies LLC. He also has a website www.ricksantorum.com.
More on Rick’s personal life.
Rick Santorum got married in 1990 to Karen Graver. The couple met when they were interns. The couple currently has seven children. They went through an extremely hard time in 1996. Their son Gabriel was born early and died within two hours of his birth. The couple and their seven children got over the hardness with a lot of strength and are living a happy life with Gabriel in their hearts.
