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  1. Leahy on issues with making English the country's sole national language Recorded May 18, 2006. Patrick Joseph Leahy, OBE ( / ˈleɪhi / LAY-hee; born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he also was the president pro ...

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      Education. Georgetown University ( BA) Cornell University (...

    • Patrick Leahy

      Patrick Joseph "Pat" Leahy, OBE (born March 31, 1940) is an...

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    Leahy was born in Montpelier, Vermont, the son of Alba (née Zambon) and Howard Francis Leahy, a printer. His grandparents came to Vermont from Ireland and Italyduring the 19th century to work at quarries.

    Leahy was elected to the United States Senate for the first time in 1974, succeeding retiring 34-year incumbent George Aiken. At 34 years old, he was the youngest Senator in Vermont history. Leahy was nearly defeated in 1980 by Republican Stewart Ledbetter, winning by only 2,700 votes amid Ronald Reagan's landslide victory.In 1986, he faced what wa...

    Leahy married Marcelle Pomerleau in 1962. They live in a farmhouse in Middlesex, Vermont that they moved to from Burlington, and have three children. Leahy celebrated his fifty year anniversary with his wife, saying ‘‘We hate it when we’re apart from one another.’’ Leahy is legally blind in one eye. Leahy was targeted in an anthraxattack November 1...

    Media related to Patrick Leahyat Wikimedia Commons 1. United States Senator Patrick Leahy Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine official U.S. Senate site 2. Leahy for Vermont Archived 2016-10-31 at the Wayback Machine official campaign site

  2. Feb 9, 2024 · Vermont native and former Democratic U.S. Senator, Patrick Leahy will long be remembered for his unwavering commitment to justice, human rights and as champion for Vermont’s rich agricultural heritage. Patrick Leahy represented Vermont in the U.S. Senate from 1975-2023, making him the third-longest serving senator in U.S. history, according to his Britannica biography. Elected at...

  3. Nov 15, 2021 · Nov. 15, 2021. WASHINGTON — Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and the chamber’s longest-serving member, announced on Monday that he would retire at the end of his term rather than ...

  4. Nov 15, 2021 · After eight terms in the U.S. Senate, Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont announced his retirement on Monday. The powerful senator was at the center of many Supreme Court nomination fights.

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  5. Education. Georgetown University ( BA) Cornell University ( MBA, MILR) University of Pennsylvania ( EdD) Profession. Academic administrator. Patrick F. Leahy is an American academic administrator serving as the tenth president of Monmouth University. [1] He previously served as the sixth president of Wilkes University from 2012 to 2019.

  6. As Sen. Patrick Leahy wraps up a 48-year career representing Vermont, The longest-serving Senate Democrat tells the AP that he’s leaving with a mixture of resignation and resolve, hopeful that Congress can overcome its hyperpartisanship. (December 21) WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Patrick Leahy lingered on a narrow balcony on the west side of the ...

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