- Source of Wealth: Politics
- Age: 61
- Birth Place: Winchester, Virginia, United States
- Height: 1.91 m (6′ 3″)
- Marital Status: Married (Karen Garver Santorum)
- Full Name: Richard John Santorum
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: May 10, 1958
- Ethnicity: Italian and Irish
- Occupation: Politician, Attorney, Author, and Political Commentator
- Education: Pennsylvania State University, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and Penn State Dickinson Law
- Children: 7 (Elizabeth, Gabriel, Daniel, John, Isabella, Patrick and Peter)
Richard John “Rick” Santorum is American Republican Party politician. According to Politico, the former senator’s public financial disclosure lists his net worth as being between $880,000 and $1.9 million.
Santorum was a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007, and a Republican candidate in the U.S. presidential election of 2012. Rick Santorum started his political life at Pennsylvania State University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 1980. While working as an assistant to State Senator J. Doyle Corman, Santorum earned a graduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1981) and a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law (1986). After a short time practicing law, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served two terms from 1991-95. He was elected to the Senate in 1994 and reelected in 2000.