Patrick Leahy

Birthday: 31 March 1940, Montpelier, Vermont, USA

Birth Name: Patrick Joseph Leahy

Height: 188 cm

Born on March 31, 1940, in Montpelier, Vermont, Patrick Leahy was elected to the United States Senate in 1974 and remains the only Democrat elected to this office from Vermont. He is the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and is a senior member of the Agriculture and Appropriations Committees and as of 2012 ranks second in seniority in the Senate. A lifelong Batman fan, Leahy has appeared in three films and one TV show about the Caped Crusader: he provided the voice for a territorial governor in the Old West on the animated series Batman: The Animated Series (1992), made a cameo appearance as himself in the Jungle Party sequence from Batman & Robin (1997), and appeared in two of Christopher Nolan's Batman films, The Dark Knight (2008) (where he says to Heath Ledger's Joker, "We're not intimidated by you thugs.") and was "Board Member #2" in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). He also wrote an introduction for "The Dark Knight Archives," a 1992 compilation of Batman comics, and a preface for "Batman: Death of Innocents," a 1996 graphic novel about the dangers of land mines.Patrick Leahy has been married to Marcelle Pomerleau Leahy since 1962. They have a daughter, two sons, and five grandchildren, and live in Middlesex, Vermont. Show less «

Judiciary is where my passion is.

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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

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