Michael Smerconish
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Smerconish interviewing President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on October 26, 2012
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| Born |
March 15, 1962 (age 55) Doylestown, Pennsylvania |
| Residence | Montgomery County, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Central Bucks High School West, Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater |
Lehigh University (B.A.) University of Pennsylvania (J.D.) |
| Occupation | SiriusXM host, CNN and CNN International host, columnist, author, political analyst, lawyer |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Lavinia Nardini |
| Website | www |
Michael A. Smerconish (born March 15, 1962) is an American radio host and television presenter, newspaper columnist, author, and lawyer. He broadcasts The Michael Smerconish Program weekdays at 9:00 a.m. ET on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel (124), and hosts the CNN and CNN International program Smerconish at 9:00 a.m. ET, with a re-play at 6:00 pm ET on Saturdays. He is a Sunday newspaper columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Smerconish has authored six books: five non-fiction works and one novel. He is also of counsel to the Philadelphia law firm of Kline & Specter.
Smerconish graduated from Central Bucks High School West, a public high school in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. from Lehigh University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Despite being raised in a Republican household, and while in his early teens, Smerconish began to correspond with the (then) Democratic Mayor of Philadelphia, Frank L. Rizzo. Eventually the two would meet and establish a close relationship. But Smerconish’s start in politics came in the spring of 1980 when his father competed unsuccessfully in a Republican primary for the Pennsylvania state legislature. Smerconish worked tirelessly in his father’s campaign during his own senior year in high school, during which he registered to vote for the first time. Despite his father’s election loss, Smerconish was smitten with GOP politics, having met both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush during the build-up to the Pennsylvania Primary.
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