Meet the candidates: Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum is a native of Virginia, who grew up in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.  In school, he was nicknamed “Rooster” because of his hair’s tendency to stick up and the fact that he did not back down.  After his parents, who worked for the VA hospital system, were transferred to Illinois, Santorum graduated from high school there.  His father was an Italian immigrant and his mother was half Italian, half Irish.

 

After high school, Santorum returned to Pennsylvania to attend Penn State.  He graduated with a degree in Political Science and then went to the University of Pittsburgh for an MBA.  Santorum then returned to Penn State to attend the Dickinson School of Law.  He graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1986.

 

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