Ron DeSantis

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, DeSantis served as a congressman from Florida's 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2018.
DeSantis has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and as well as Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. He taught history a for a year at Darlington High School in Rome, Georgia.
DeSantis has also written a memoir that was published in 2023 and a book that was published in 2011.
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. 
During his childhood, DeSantis lived in Orlando for a short time before moving to Dunedin, Florida. At six years old, he had a sister named Christina DeSantis who was born in 1985. 
He was a member of the Little League team for 1991 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 
He attended schools and universities such as, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, Dunedin High School, Yale University, and Harvard Law School. DeSantis also was Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. 
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.
During his military career, DeSantis was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Iraq Campaign Medal.
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. 
DeSantis served as a congressman for the state's congressional district for five years from 2013 until he resigned in September 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.