Patrick Morrisey
| Patrick Morrisey | |
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| 34th Attorney General of West Virginia | |
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Assumed office January 14, 2013 |
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| Governor |
Earl Ray Tomblin Jim Justice |
| Preceded by | Darrell McGraw |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Patrick James Morrisey December 21, 1967 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education |
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (BA) Rutgers University, Newark (JD) |
Patrick James Morrisey (born December 21, 1967) is the Attorney General of West Virginia and the first member of the Republican Party to serve as West Virginia's Attorney General since 1933.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Morrisey grew up in Edison, New Jersey. His father was account manager at U.S. Steel, while his mother worked as a registered nurse. Morrisey ran cross-country and played on his high school's tennis team, before he graduated from Bishop George Ahr High School in 1985.
Morrisey graduated with honors from Rutgers College with a Bachelor of Arts in history and political science in 1989. He also attended Rutgers School of Law–Newark, receiving his juris doctor in 1992.
After graduating from Rutgers, Morrisey opened a private law firm in 1992. He practiced health care, election, regulatory and communications law at the lobbying group Arent Fox, from 1995 to 1999. Morrisey served as deputy staff director and chief health counsel for the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce from 1999 to 2004, where he worked on the passage of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness Response Act and the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (establishing Medicare Part D). He ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in New Jersey's 7th congressional district in 2000, receiving 9% of the vote in the Republican primary. He worked for Sidley Austin before he joined King & Spalding in 2010, becoming a partner.
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