Tony Perkins
Tony Perkins was born in Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States on March 20th, 1963 and is the Politician. At the age of 61, Tony Perkins biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Early life and career
Perkins was born and raised in Cleveland, Oklahoma, 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. Perkins joined the United States Marine Corps after college. Following his tour of duty, he became a reserve deputy with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office and then worked with the US State Department's Anti-Terrorism Assistance Service, which provided hostage negotiation and bomb disposal to hundreds of police officers from around the world.
Perkins left federal law enforcement to work for KBTR, the Baton Rouge television station owned by then-State Representative Woody Jenkins, after the federal contract for the anti-terrorism program came to an end. Perkins opened a news division at KBTR.
Political career
When Perkins defeated Democrat L. Milton of Baker 63% to 37 percent in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 21, 1995, he earned an open seat in the Louisiana legislature representing District 64 (the eastern Baton Rouge suburbs, including part of Livingston Parish). He was elected on a conservative platform of strong families and limited government. He was reelected without opposition four years later. In 2004, he resigned from the legislature, fulfilling a pledge not to serve more than two terms.
Perkins wrote legislation to require Louisiana public schools to install Internet filtering software to enable daily silent prayer, as well as preventing "censorship of America's Christian roots," when he was president. Perkins also wrote the nation's first covenant marriage law, a nontraditional form of marriage that allows for divorce only in cases of physical assault, abandonment, adultery, or marriage after two years of separation.
Perkins strongly opposed Louisiana casino gaming, proposing a 1996 initiative to limit the location of gambling riverboats to one side of the river, "putting lipstick on a hog." It doesn't make the bill any better, but it does look a little better." Public Broadcasting Service credited Perkins with "staunchly anti-abortion" work while in the state house, while assisting with law enforcement and economic growth issues. Perkins was instrumental in expanding state control of Louisiana abortion clinics; he introduced legislation requiring state licensing and sanitary inspections.
In 2002, Perkins ran for the Senate as a social and religious conservative Republican. Murphy J. Murphy, Louisiana's then-Governor, was the subject of a letter by the Louisiana governor. Foster Jr. and the National Republican Senatorial Committee supported other candidates. Perkins came in fourth place in the nonpartisan blanket primary, with just under 10% of the vote. Mary Landrieu, the Democratic incumbent, was re-elected in the general election against Suzanne Haik Terrell, another Republican.
He was named one of nine commissioners to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom on May 14, 2018. (USCIRF). The Hindu American Foundation sluggishly condemned his appointment for his "good stances against non-Christians" on his record.
Perkins was elected chair of the USCIRF on June 17, 2019. He became the USCIRF vice chair on June 16, 2020, after he was born on June 16, 2020.
In the 2014 election, Perkins was touted as a potential Republican nominee for the Senate against Mary Landrieu. Despite strongly criticizing Bill Cassidy, the leading Republican challenger to Landrieu, as "pretty poor on the issues," Perkins said in an interview in January 2014 that he would not run against Landrieu. However, he did not express an interest in running for Governor of Louisiana in 2015. Vitter lost the election and announced that he did not seek re-election to the Senate, but Perkins declined to run in the 2016 election and endorsed John Fleming for the position.