Title: Ron DeSantis Content: Ronald Dion DeSantis (born September 14, 1978) is an American politician, former military officer and attorney serving as the 46th governor of Florida since 2019. As a member of the Republican Party, he served as a congressman from Florida's 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2018. == Biography == === Early life and education === Ronald Dion DeSantis was born on September 14, 1978 in Jacksonville, Florida to Karen Rogers DeSantis and Ronald D. DeSantis Sr. He is of Italian and English descent and his great great- grandparents migrated to the United States during the early 1900's between the late 1910's. During his childhood he late grew up in Dunedin and Orlando, Florida and he was a member of Little League, as he was a baseball player during his youth for the 1991 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Growing up, DeSantis attended Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School and Dunedin High School. After high school, he attended Yale University and graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduating from Yale, DeSantis spent a year teaching at the Darlington School, a high school in Rome, GA. After this, he matriculated into Harvard Law School where he would eventually graduate with his Juris Doctor degree. === Military Service (2004–2010) === DeSantis volunteered and joined the U.S. Navy and was assigned to the Judge Advocates Generals Corps for the Naval Station Mayport and also worked for the Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay Joint Detention Facility, and Naval Special Warfare Command as a military lieutenant. He was deployed to the Iraq War along with other colleague troops in 2007 and later returned to the United States in 2008. DeSantis served as a naval and military officer from 2004 until his honorable discharge in February 2010. === Political career (2013–present) === ==== United States Representative (2013–2018) ==== DeSantis previously served as a congressman for Florida's 6th congressional district and he was the chairman of ten different committee agenda assignments for the 114th United States Congress. He served as a congressman for the state's congressional district for five years from 2013 until 2018. === Governor of Florida === In January 2018, He officially announced his candidacy for governor to succeed term limited governor Rick Scott and had chosen Florida congresswoman Jeanette Nuñezas his running mate for lieutenant governor. In August 2018, DeSantis won the republican primary in the general election. In November 2018, DeSantis defeated Tallahassee mayor and democratic candidate Andrew Gillum in the gubernatorial race. He was officially sworn in as the 46th governor of Florida on January 8, 2019. In November 2021, DeSantis launched his reelection campaign to a second term as governor. On November 8, 2022, he defeated former Florida governor and democratic candidate Charlie Crist to a second term as governor with Jeanette Nuñez as his running mate in the 2022 election. === Marriage, children, and personal life === DeSantis had met Casey Black at Naval Station Mayport when he was a naval officer and they got married in September 2009, at Disney World. They have three children together, two daughters named Madison and Mamie DeSantis, and a son named Mason DeSantis. DeSantis has a younger sister named Christina Marie DeSantis, but she passed away in May 2015 at the age of 30 in London, United Kingdom.