Tom Liddy

Thomas "Tom" Liddy is an attorney and political figure in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. He is the son of the Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy.

Liddy was born July 20, 1962, in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is the fourth of Gordon and Frances Liddy's five children. The family moved to a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. in 1970 when Gordon Liddy began to work for President Richard Nixon.

Liddy received a B.A. degree in history at Fordham University in 1986, the same college his two brothers, father and grandfather attended. He spent his junior year abroad in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he studied economics and theology and learned to speak Bahasa Indonesia. After serving in the United States Marine Corps, he returned to Fordam and graduated with a J.D. degree in 1992.

Liddy was sworn in as a U.S. Marine on December 28, 1982, while at Fordham and attended the Officer Candidates School of the United States Marine in Quantico, Virginia, during the summer.

He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marines in April 1985. He served on active duty from 1986 until 1989. He was a 81MM mortar platoon commander and later the executive officer of Weapons Company 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines. He served in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Okinawa, Japan; The Republic of Korea; and the Republic of the Philippines. Tom left the Marines in 1989 and returned to Fordham to study law. He remained in the Marine Reserves until 1998.

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