Ron DeSantis

Extracted Attributes

• Education

  Yale University (Bachelor of Arts, 2001); Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor, 2005)

• Full Name

  Ronald Dion DeSantis

• Date of Birth

  1978-09-14

• Military Rank

  Lieutenant (United States Navy)

• Current Office

  46th Governor of Florida

• Place of Birth

  Jacksonville, Florida, United States

• Published Work

  Dreams from Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama (2011)

• Political Party

  Republican Party

• Previous Office

  U.S. Representative for Florida's 6th District (2013-2018)

• 2018 Election Victory Margin

  0.4% (Percentage of total votes)

• 2022 Election Victory Margin

  19.4% (Percentage of total votes)

Timeline

• Born in Jacksonville, Florida. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1978-09-14

• Graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts. (Source: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress)

  2001-01-01

• Joined the United States Navy. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2004-01-01

• Graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor. (Source: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress)

  2005-01-01

• Deployed to Iraq as a legal advisor to SEAL Team One. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2007-01-01

• Honorably discharged from active military duty and joined the U.S. Navy Reserve. (Source: Florida Department of State)

  2010-01-01

• Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Florida's 6th district. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2012-11-06

• Co-founded the House Freedom Caucus. (Source: Britannica)

  2015-01-01

• Resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives to focus on the Florida gubernatorial race. (Source: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress)

  2018-09-10

• Inaugurated as the 46th Governor of Florida. (Source: Florida Department of State)

  2019-01-08

• Reelected as Governor of Florida, defeating Charlie Crist by a 19.4% margin. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-11-08

• Announced candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-05-24

• Withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-01-21

Ron DeSantis

Ronald Dion DeSantis (; born September 14, 1978) is an American politician, attorney, and former naval officer serving since 2019 as the 46th governor of Florida. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2013 to 2018 as the U.S. representative from Florida's 6th congressional district. DeSantis was a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, withdrawing his candidacy in January 2024. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, DeSantis graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts and from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor. He joined the U.S. Navy in 2004 and was promoted to lieutenant before serving as a legal advisor to SEAL Team One. He was stationed at Joint Task Force Guantanamo in 2006 and was deployed to Iraq in 2007. When DeSantis returned to the U.S. about eight months later, the U.S. attorney general appointed DeSantis to serve as a special assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida, a position he held until his honorable discharge from active military duty in 2010. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and was reelected in 2014 and 2016. During his tenure, he became a founding member of the Freedom Caucus and was an ally of President Donald Trump. He briefly ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but withdrew when incumbent senator Marco Rubio sought reelection. After winning the Republican nomination in the 2018 gubernatorial election, DeSantis defeated Tallahassee mayor and Democratic nominee Andrew Gillum by 0.4%. DeSantis was governor during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as during major hurricanes Ian, Helene, and Milton. He encouraged the passage of the Parental Rights in Education Act and the Heartbeat Protection Act. In the 2022 gubernatorial election, he defeated former governor Charlie Crist by 19.4%, the largest margin for either party in a gubernatorial race since 1982. In his second term, DeSantis signed Florida Senate Bill 266 and established the Florida departments of Commerce and Government Efficiency. On May 24, 2023, DeSantis announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president of the United States. On January 21, 2024, he withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed Trump.

Web Search Results

• Ron DeSantis | Biography, Politics, Governor, & Facts - Britannica

  Ron DeSantis (born September 14, 1978, Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.) is a Republican politician who serves as governor of Florida (2019– ) and who is a leading figure in the conservative movement. He previously was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (2013–18). DeSantis staged an unsuccessful bid for U.S. president in 2024. ## Early life, education, and military service [...] DeSantis took office in 2019, and he soon made national news with his controversial policies. Notably, after the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, he lifted restrictions much earlier than other governors, though he implemented measures to protect the elderly. While many predicted dire consequences, Florida’s death rate (more than 75,000 people) was within the national average, and the state’s economy fared better than many others. DeSantis also expressed concern over alleged voter fraud, and in 2022 Florida established the Office of Election Crimes and Security. Democrats and voting-rights activists worried the agency would be used to suppress minority voting. [...] DeSantis subsequently worked as a federal prosecutor. In 2011 he published Dreams from Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama, in which he described his brand of conservatism and criticized the policies of Pres. Barack Obama. The following year DeSantis ran for a seat in the House of Representatives and was easily elected to represent District 6 in northeastern Florida. During his tenure, he cofounded (2015) the conservative House Freedom Caucus and became a frequent commentator on Fox News. Backed by the Tea Party, a conservative populist movement, DeSantis announced his bid for the Senate in 2015 but withdrew after incumbent Republican Marco Rubio decided to seek reelection. In 2017 Donald Trump became president, and DeSantis was among his most vocal supporters. That

• Ronald Dion DeSantis - Florida Department of State

  After active-duty service, Ron DeSantis served as a federal prosecutor, where he targeted and convicted child predators. He still serves in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He was first elected to Congress in 2012, as the U.S. Representative for Florida’s Sixth District, where he fought for term limits, the No Budget/No Pay Act, and to cut taxes. While serving in Congress, he refused his Congressional pension and health insurance plan because he is against special deals for politicians. He also sponsored legislation to make it easier for the military to prosecute sexual assault and authored the bill to end the secret taxpayer-funded slush fund for members of Congress to make hush payoffs for sexual harassment. [...] + Sidney Johnston Catts + Cary Augustus Hardee + John Wellborn Martin + Doyle Elam Carlton + David Sholtz + Frederick Preston Cone + Spessard Lindsey Holland + Millard Fillmore Caldwell + Fuller Warren + Daniel Thomas McCarty + Charley Eugene Johns + Thomas LeRoy Collins + Cecil Farris Bryant + William Haydon Burns + Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. + Reubin O'Donovan Askew + Daniel Robert Graham + John Wayne Mixson + Robert "Bob" Martinez + Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. + Kenneth Hood MacKay, Jr. + John Ellis Bush + Charlie Crist + Richard L. Scott + Ronald Dion DeSantis The Capitol U.S. Navy in Florida [...] The Florida Department of State manages our state's elections, corporations, historical and cultural resources and our libraries. Para español, seleccione de la lista Department of State Florida Facts Florida History Florida Governors Ronald Dion DeSantis # Ronald Dion DeSantis Ronald D. DeSantis (1978–) Forty-sixth governor January 8, 2019 to present

• Ron DeSantis - Wikipedia

  On February 2, 2021, DeSantis announced support for legislation to hold tech companies accountable to prevent alleged political censorship. In response to social media networks removing Trump from their platforms, DeSantis and other Florida Republicans pushed legislation in the Florida legislature to prohibit tech companies from de-platforming political candidates. A federal judge blocked the law by preliminary injunction the day before it was to take effect, on the grounds that it violated the First Amendment and federal law. Florida petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Eleventh Circuit ruling, and the Court accepted the petition for review. The Court held that the wrong First Amendment analysis had been applied and remanded the case to the Eleventh Circuit to apply the [...] he was credited with turning "his coronavirus policies into a parable of American freedom". [...] ## Early life and education Ronald Dion DeSantis was born on September 14, 1978, in Jacksonville, Florida, to parents Karen DeSantis (née Rogers) and Ronald Daniel DeSantis. His middle name, Dion, honors the singer Dion DiMucci, and his family name has different pronunciations. His mother's family name, Rogers, was chosen by her grandfather (né Ruggiero) upon immigrating from Italy. All of DeSantis's great-grandparents immigrated from Southern Italy during the first Italian diaspora. His parents and all of his grandparents were born and grew up in Western Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio.

• Ron DeSantis - National Governors Association

  In 2018, Ron DeSantis was elected the 46th Governor of Florida. As Governor, he has led across a wide range of issues by successfully navigating Florida through the COVID pandemic, protecting Floridians from the harmful impacts of illegal immigration, expanding school choice, promoting public safety (with a record 50-year crime low in the state), keeping Florida’s economy strong, ensuring road improvement projects are fully funded and ahead of schedule, and making historic investments in environmental conservation and stewardship.

• DESANTIS, Ron | US House of Representatives

  ### Records Search: Explore Primary Sources # DESANTIS, Ron DESANTIS, Ron DESANTIS, Ron ## Office ## State/Territory ## Party ## Congress(es) ## Jump To ## Concise Biography DESANTIS, Ron, A Representative from Florida; born in Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., September 14, 1978; graduated from Dunedin High School, Dunedin, Fla., 1997; B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 2001; J.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 2005; United States Navy, 2004-2010; United States Navy Reserve, 2010-present; author; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Thirteenth and to the two succeeding Congresses until his resignation on September 10, 2018 (January 3, 2013-September 10, 2018); Governor of Florida, 2019-present. View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress [...] ## Bibliography / Further Reading DeSantis, Ron. Dreams From Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama. Jacksonville Beach, FL: High-Pitched Hum Publishing, 2011. ## Cite This Page History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “DESANTIS, Ron,” (February 16, 2026) ### For Additional Information Office of the Historian Office of Art and Archives Attic, Thomas Jefferson Building Washington, D.C. 20515 (202) 226-1300