Tony Perkins

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tony Perkins
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 20, 1963(1963-03-20)
Age	61
Birthplace	Oklahoma
Country	United States
Birth City	Oklahoma
Horoscope	Pisces

Tony Perkins Biography

Tony Perkins is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 20, 1963 in Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States. This Republican Party politician and Christian Coalition member served from 1996 to 2004 as a sixty-fourth-district member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. In 2002, he ran unsuccessfully for a Louisiana Republican nomination for the United States Senate race.

He stirred controversy when, as the manager of Woody Jenkins’ 1996 Senate campaign against Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu, he paid over eighty- thousand dollars to obtain the mail contacts of Ku Klux Klan member-turned- politician David Duke.

Perkins was born and raised in the northern Oklahoma city of Cleveland, and graduated in 1981 from Cleveland High School. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Liberty University. He later earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. After college, Perkins entered the United States Marine Corps. Following his tour of duty, he became a Baton Rouge police officer and also worked with the U.S. State Department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program instructing hundreds of police officers from around the world. Perkins later resigned from the police force.

Perkins won an open seat in the Louisiana House representing District 64 (the eastern Baton Rouge suburbs, including part of Livingston Parish) when he defeated Democrat Herman L. Milton of Baker 63% to 37% in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 21, 1995. He was elected on a conservative platform of strong families and limited government. Four years later, he was reelected without opposition. He retired from the legislature in 2004, fulfilling a promise to serve no more than two terms.

He and his wife, Lawana Lee, raised their five children in the Southern Baptist religious tradition.

Tony Perkins Net Worth

Tony Perkins is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tony Perkins 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating from Liberty University in Virginia, he earned a graduate degree in public administration from Louisiana State University. He also served briefly in the United States Marine Corps.

He worked for a time as a Baton Rouge, Louisiana police officer.

Anthony Richard Perkins (born March 20, 1963) is president of the Family Research Council, a self described Christian conservative policy and lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C. Perkins, a Southern Baptist layman, was previously a police officer and television reporter, served two terms as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 2002. On May 14, 2018, he was appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

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Who is Tony Perkins Dating?

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In September 2003, Perkins withdrew from the race for Louisiana state insurance commissioner to become the president of the conservative Christian Family Research Council (FRC). He replaced Ken Connor. In addition to his duties as president of the FRC, Perkins hosts a radio program, Washington Watch with Tony Perkins.

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Tony Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tony Perkins celebrates birthday on March 20 of every year.

Perkins was involved in the 2005 controversy over the disconnection of life support for Terri Schiavo, a woman who had been in a “persistent vegetative state” for a number of years. After a final court order permitted Schiavo’s husband to remove her feeding tube and thereby cause her to die, Perkins stated, “we should remember that her death is a symptom of a greater problem: that the courts no longer respect human life.”