Explore Tony Perkins net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! 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. In this article, we will discover how old is Tony Perkins? Who is Tony Perkins dating now & how much money does Tony Perkins have?
Name | Tony Perkins |
First Name | Tony |
Last Name | Perkins |
Occupation | Politician |
Birthday | March 20 |
Birth Year | 1963 |
Place of Birth | Oklahoma |
Home Town | Oklahoma |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Pisces |
Full/Birth Name | |
Father | Not Available |
Mother | Not Available |
Siblings | Not Available |
Spouse | Lawana Perkins |
Children(s) | Not Available |
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. 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.
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.
Tony Perkins Net Worth
Tony 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: January 13, 2024)
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.
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Salary | Under Review |
Source of Income | Politician |
Cars | Not Available |
House | Living in own house. |
On May 17, 2001, Perkins gave a speech to the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a white supremacist group that has described black people as a “retrograde species of humanity”. Perkins claimed not to know the group’s ideology at the time, but it had been widely publicized in Louisiana and the nation, just two years earlier. In an April 26, 2005, article in The Nation, reporter Max Blumenthal revealed that in 1996 while managing the unsuccessful U. S. Senate campaign of Woody Jenkins, Perkins “paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list.” Despite Perkins’ denials the document authorizing the payment carried Perkins’ signature. The Duke incident surfaced again in the local press in 2002, when Perkins ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate.
Perkins ran for the United States Senate in 2002 as a social and religious conservative Republican. Louisiana’s then-Governor, Murphy J. Foster Jr., and the National Republican Senatorial Committee backed other candidates. Perkins finished in fourth place in the nonpartisan blanket primary with just under 10% of the vote. The Democratic incumbent, Mary Landrieu, was re-elected in the general election against another Republican, Suzanne Haik Terrell.
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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According to the Baptist Press, Perkins’ “concern about the influence of the homosexual movement” led to his involvement in the 1998 founding of the Louisiana Family Forum, a conservative, faith-oriented, pro-life, and non-profit group.
Who is Tony Perkins Dating?
According to our records, Tony Perkins married to Lawana Perkins . As of January 13, 2024, Tony Perkins’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Tony Perkins. You may help us to build the dating records for Tony Perkins!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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Perkins opposed casino gambling in Louisiana, calling a 1996 plan to restrict the location of gambling riverboats to one side of the river, “putting lipstick on a hog”. It doesn’t make the bill any better, it just looks a little better.” Perkins was described as “staunchly anti-abortion” by Public Broadcasting Service which also credited him with working on law and order and economic development issues while in the state house. Perkins was instrumental in increasing state regulation of Louisiana abortion clinics; he sponsored a law to require state licensing and sanitary inspections.
In 2005, Perkins opposed the filibustering of certain right-leaning federal judicial nominees by U.S. Senate Democrats, arguing that the Democrats were waging a “campaign against orthodox religious views”, and that the judicial nominees were being persecuted for their Christian faith. He became one of the organizers and hosts of Justice Sunday, a series of events that sought to mobilize the evangelical Christian base in support of the nominees.
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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.”
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