Eric Cantor

Eric Ivan Cantor is an American politician, lawyer, and businessman, who served as the United States representative for Virginias 7th congressional district from 2001 until 2014. A member of the Republican Party, he became House Majority Leader when the 112th Congress convened on January 3, 2011. He previously served as House Minority Whip from 2009 until 2011.

Cantor, the second of three children, was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Mary Lee , a schoolteacher, and Eddie Cantor, who owned a real estate firm. His family emigrated from Eastern Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s. His father was the state treasurer for Ronald Reagans 1980 presidential campaign. Cantor was raised in Conservative Judaism. He graduated from the Collegiate School, a coed private school in Richmond, in 1981. He enrolled at George Washington University in 1981, and as a freshman he worked as an intern for House Republican Tom Bliley of Virginia and was Blileys driver in the 1982 campaign. Cantor was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity while at GW and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1985. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from William amp Mary Law School in 1988, and received a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in 1989.

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