Patrick Joseph Leahy (/ˈleɪhi/; born March 31, 1940) is an American
politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Vermont, a
seat to which he was first elected in 1974. A member of the Democratic
Party, Leahy held the position of president pro tempore of the United
States Senate from December 17, 2012 to January 3, 2015, and was thus
during that time third in the presidential line of succession. Now in
his eighth six-year term of office, he is currently (since the
December 2012 death of Daniel Inouye) the most senior member of the
Senate, and is also the last of the Senate's "Watergate Babies" â€"
Democrats first elected to Congress in 1974, following President
Richard Nixon's August 9, 1974 resignation over the Watergate scandal.
Additionally, Leahy remains the only sitting U.S. Senator to have
served during the presidency of Gerald Ford. Leahy received the title
of President pro tempore emeritus in January 2015.The current dean of
the state's congressional delegation, Leahy is Vermont's
longest-serving U.S. Senator, and as of 2020 is the only Democrat the
state has ever elected to the Senate. He is the former chairman of the
Agriculture and Judiciary Committees, and has served as the ranking
member of the Appropriations Committee since 2017. In 2001, Leahy was
one of the two U.S. Senators targeted by the anthrax attacks that
killed five people.He is the longest-serving Democrat in the current
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