Who is Joe Walsh? Meet the controversial radio host and former Illinois congressman challenging Trump in 2020
By Chicago Tribune staff
Chicago Tribune |
Aug 25, 2019 | 11:16 AM
Conservative radio talk show host and onetime Illinois U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh is mounting a challenge against President Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination. Here’s some background on the long-shot candidate.
Over the years, he has had a number of careers
The North Barrington native grew up in an Irish Catholic household with nine children, seven of them boys. He graduated in 1980 from Barrington High School, where he was senior class president and active in sports. He earned a degree in English from the University of Iowa and, some years later, a master’s in public policy from the University of Chicago.
In the mid-'80s, Walsh gave acting a go. He told the Tribune in 2011 that he studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York and places out West. Before being elected to Congress, he was a community college teacher, fundraiser, researcher and worker at financial firms, public records show.
He was once an Illinois congressman
Walsh served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Illinois’ 8th District, from 2011 to 2013. He made his first bid for Congress in 1996 and another failed bid for office — for the Illinois House — in 1998.
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