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Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr. From to , he served as president of the Club for Growth.

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Senate election in Pennsylvania , and was elected to the seat after defeating the Democratic nominee, former U. Navy three-star admiral and congressman Joe Sestak , in the general election. On October 5, , Toomey announced that he would not run for reelection to a third Senate term in After leaving office, Toomey joined the board of Apollo Global Management.

His father was of Irish descent and his mother of Portuguese ancestry. His mother's grandparents were all born in the Azores.

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Martha's Catholic Church. Toomey was a member of the Boy Scouts of America and attained the organization's highest rank, Eagle Scout. After graduation, Toomey was hired by Chemical Bank , where he was involved in currency swap transactions. He later said he resigned out of concern that Deutsche Bank would impose a less flexible and entrepreneurial work environment.

During his term, he drafted a new charter for the commission requiring a supermajority for any tax increase and established a split-roll tax system that levied taxes on land at higher rate than taxes on buildings. In , Toomey ran for the Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district , based in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania , after Democratic incumbent U.

Representative Paul McHale decided to retire.