Barack Hussein Obama II, the 44th President of the United States of America, was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. After graduating from Columbia University, Obama spent the next 5 years working with community service organizations in various roles.... (Continue reading)
Hillary Rodham Clinton was born on October 26,1947. After getting her undergrad degree at Wellesley, in 1969, she entered Yale Law School. While at Yale, she was on the Board of Editors for the Yale Law Review. Yale was also... (Continue reading)
Joseph “Joe” Lieberman was born on February 24, 1942. He received a dual degree in political science and economics in 1964, as well as his law degree in 1967, from Yale University. He went to work for a New Haven... (Continue reading)
John Thune is South Dakota’s Republican junior United States Senator. He was born on January 7, 1961. In 1983, Thune graduated with a B.A. in Business from Biola University, an Evangelical Christian college in California, followed by an MBA from... (Continue reading)
Timothy Pawlenty was born on November 27, 1960. He received a B.A. in Political Science at the University of Minnesota in 1983 and a law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1986. During law school, he interned... (Continue reading)
Richard “Rick” Santorum was born on May 10, 1958. He graduated from Penn State University in 1980 with a degree in political science before getting an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh in 1981. In 1986, Santorum received a law... (Continue reading)
Louis “Lou” Dobbs was born in 1945. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA in economics in 1967. Dobbs worked on anti-poverty programs in Boston and Washington, D.C. before working as a cash-management specialist in Los Angeles. In the... (Continue reading)
Michele Bachmann was born on April 6, 1956. After finishing high school in Anoka, Minnesota in 1974, she graduated from Winona State University. She later attended Oral Roberts University, where she earned a law degree, and the College of William... (Continue reading)
Glenn Beck was born on February 10, 1964. He won a contest that landed him a radio broadcast job at the age of 13 in his hometown of Mt. Vernon, Washington. After high school, Beck moved to Provo, Utah to... (Continue reading)
Newton “Newt” Gingrich was born on June 17, 1943. After receiving his BA from Emory in 1965, he got his MA and PhD at Tulane, finishing up in 1971. From 1970 to 1978, he taught History at the University of... (Continue reading)