52 Facts About Ed Rendell

1.

Edward Gene Rendell is an American lawyer, prosecutor, politician, and author.

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Ed Rendell served as the 45th governor of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2011, as chair of the national Democratic Party, and as the 96th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1992 to 2000.

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Ed Rendell was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia for two terms from 1978 to 1986.

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Ed Rendell developed a reputation for being tough on crime, fueling a run for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1986, which Rendell lost in the primary.

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Ed Rendell was a member of the Democratic Governors Association Executive Committee and served as the Chairman of the National Governors Association.

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Ed Rendell left office in 2011 due to term limits, and released a book, A Nation of Wusses: How America's Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great the following year.

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Ed Rendell was born on January 5,1944, in New York City, the son of Emma and Jesse T Rendell.

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8.

Ed Rendell's parents were Jewish, and all four of his grandparents were immigrants from Russia.

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Ed Rendell attended Riverdale Country School before the University of Pennsylvania, where he joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity in 1962 and earned a BA degree in 1965.

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Ed Rendell served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army Reserve from 1968 to 1974.

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Ed Rendell was elected district attorney of Philadelphia in 1977, becoming the youngest DA in history, after he defeated the incumbent Democratic district attorney, Emmett Fitzpatrick, in the primary election.

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Ed Rendell ran a campaign that emphasized that he was new to politics and so was not tainted by its corruption.

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In 1980, Ed Rendell received 28 delegate votes for Vice President at the Democratic National Convention, although he was not a candidate.

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Ed Rendell served two terms as DA before leaving in 1986 to run for Governor of Pennsylvania.

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Ed Rendell was defeated in the Democratic gubernatorial primary by Bob Casey, Sr.

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In 1982, during his second term, Ed Rendell presided over the controversial prosecution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, resulting in a death sentence that was overturned in 2011.

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In 1987, Ed Rendell ran for the Democratic nomination against the incumbent mayor, Wilson Goode and lost.

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Ed Rendell was given the nickname "Philadelphia's Renaissance or Revival" because of how well he did with the budget.

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The first piece of legislation Ed Rendell initiated was The Plan for a New Pennsylvania.

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Later that year, the Ed Rendell administration passed a prescription drug plan that covered older Pennsylvanians.

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Ed Rendell proposed that the 8 cents per gallon tax on beer be raised to 25 cents per gallon.

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In 2004, Ed Rendell persuaded the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pass measures to legalize and tax slot machine parlors, with the revenues from these measures to be used to reduce property taxes.

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Ed Rendell has been criticized by many opponents of legalized gambling.

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Ed Rendell said that he initiated an investigation into the matter.

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In early 2005, Rendell made statements that seemed to support President George W Bush's Social Security privatization proposal.

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26.

Ed Rendell addressed this issue in later speeches, saying that he opposes social security privatization, and that his previous comments were meant to show admiration for President Bush for taking on a politically risky subject.

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On November 16,2005, Ed Rendell signed a repeal of the pay raise after a near unanimous vote for repeal.

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Ed Rendell won re-election on November 7,2006, defeating Lynn Swann, a former professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Ed Rendell was sworn into his second term as governor of Pennsylvania on January 16,2007.

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Ed Rendell was sworn in as governor of Pennsylvania on January 16,2007.

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In July 2007, Ed Rendell ordered a state government shutdown following a dispute with the state legislature over legislative initiatives related to the state budget.

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In 2008, Ed Rendell backed the effort to proceed with the Delaware River Deepening Project.

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Ed Rendell then attempted to force New Jersey to back the project by exercising his Delaware River Port Authority board chairman power.

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Ed Rendell can devote, literally, 19,20 hours a day to it.

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Ed Rendell called for reinstating the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in the wake of a shootout in Pittsburgh.

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Ed Rendell was a potential candidate to serve as Senator John Kerry's running mate in the 2004 presidential campaign.

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Ed Rendell's popularity, particularly in the suburban ring of counties around Philadelphia, was a key to Kerry's victory in Pennsylvania, one of the most hotly contested swing states in the 2004 presidential election.

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On January 24,2008, Ed Rendell announced his endorsement of Senator Clinton in the latter's race for the White House.

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Some superdelegates maintained a neutral stance prior to the Pennsylvania primary as a result of Ed Rendell talking them into remaining neutral until the Pennsylvania primary was over.

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Clinton benefited from televised endorsement ads Ed Rendell made on her behalf.

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Ed Rendell was succeeded by Republican Tom Corbett on January 18,2011.

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Also in 2011, Rendell reportedly acted as a go-between for Range Resources Corp, an oil and gas exploration and production company, and then United States EPA Administrator Lisa P Jackson, regarding a Texas water contamination case; and has been a vocal proponent of shale gas extraction as part of a United States energy strategy.

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Ed Rendell is a faculty member of the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, and chair of Team Pennsylvania Foundation.

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In 2016, Ed Rendell admitted that during his term as Governor of Pennsylvania, he underperformed when he dealt with the growing popularity of shale gas in Pennsylvania.

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Ed Rendell stated, "I made a mistake in the rush to get the economic part of fracking delivered to Pennsylvania" saying that he should have been more concerned with the effect shale gas has on Pennsylvania's environment and not with how Pennsylvania could benefit financially from shale gas.

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46.

Marjorie Ed Rendell is a Federal judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit who was appointed by President Bill Clinton.

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Ed and Marjorie Ed Rendell announced their separation shortly after he left office in 2011.

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Ed Rendell acknowledged that he has dealt with Parkinson's disease for over three years in a press conference at the University of Pennsylvania hospital in June 2018.

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Ed Rendell played the Philadelphia Mayor in the 2015 film The Benefactor and the 2019 film In the Shadow of the Moon.

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Ed Rendell is a Philadelphia Eagles fan and part of the panel on the NBC Sports Philadelphia show Eagles Postgame Live, which airs after every Eagles regular and post-season game.

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Ed Rendell was among the crowd in attendance for Bounty Bowl II in 1989, in which the unruly fans threw snow and ice at the field; Ed Rendell wagered $20 expecting that a fellow fan could not throw a snowball from the stands of the stadium to the field.

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Ed Rendell has assisted in finding new corporate sponsorship for Philadelphia International Championship, a 21-year-old Philadelphia bicycle race.