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Rick Santorum is a Pennsylvania politician who unsuccessfully sought the 2012 and 2016 Republican nomination for president. Santorum served as a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007, including chairman of the Senate Republican Conference from 2001 to 2007, and as a U.S. House of Representatives member from 1991 to 1995. As senator Santorum founded the Congressional Working Group on Religious Freedom and championed democracy and religious liberty worldwide; a self-declared ultra-conservative Catholic, he has taken a controversial hardline stance on social issues like abortion and homosexuality. Santorum was the founding director of the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Program to Protect America's Freedom. He is the author of Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works (2014) and It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good (2005), among others. Santorum received his undergraduate degree from Penn State University, M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law.
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