Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Services; Renee Bouchard / Public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
What strikes me about Patrick Leahy is the sheer endurance. Coming from tiny Vermont and lasting in the Senate for nearly five decades is not luck; it is a kind of quiet, relentless discipline that flashier careers rarely match. The arc from lawyer to state's attorney to senator reads like a textbook of patient institution-building. I tend to admire people who win by simply outlasting everyone, and Leahy embodies that. The Order of the British Empire and his James Madison Award hint at a reputation built on substance rather than spectacle. To me he represents the unglamorous, indispensable craft of staying useful for the long haul.
Overview
Patrick Joseph Leahy ( LAY-hee; born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the president pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2012 to 2015 and again from 2021 to 2023. Leahy was the first Democrat ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Vermont and the third-longest-serving U.S.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Patrick Leahy
- Name (Japanese)
- パトリック・リーヒ
- Reading
- ぱとりっく・りーひ
- Born
- March 31, 1940 (age 86)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Dragon
- Origin
- Montpelier, Vermont, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- politician / lawyer / state's attorney / jurist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Saint Michael's College
Awards & achievements
- James Joyce Awards
- 1989 James Madison Award
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.