1. Jacob Doyle Corman III was born on September 9,1964 and is an American politician who served as the president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate from 2020 to 2022.
17 Facts About Jake Corman
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Jake Corman was a member of the Pennsylvania Senate 1999 to 2022, holding the same seat his father, Doyle Corman, previously held.
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Jake Corman represented the 34th Senate District, which includes all of Centre, Mifflin and Juniata Counties and portions of Huntingdon County, and includes State College.
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Jake Corman supported Republican efforts to obtain a wide range of data and personal information on voters to pursue claims of fraud.
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In November 2021, Jake Corman announced he would be seeking the 2022 Republican nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania.
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Jake Corman withdrew from the race on April 12,2022, but then re-entered the same day.
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From May 17,2022 to May 23,2022, Jake Corman served as acting lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania while Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman recovered from the implantation of a pacemaker.
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Jake Corman was State Director for Central Pennsylvania for United States senator Rick Santorum from 1994 through 1998.
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Jake Corman was Field Service Director for the Pennsylvania Builders Association from 1993 through 1994.
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Jake Corman announced that he would run for his father's seat.
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Jake Corman supported Republican efforts to obtain a wide range of data and personal information on voters to pursue baseless claims of fraud.
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In November 2021, Jake Corman announced he would be running in the Republican primary race for Pennsylvania governor.
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Jake Corman campaigned as the "conservative who stood up to" Democratic governor Tom Wolf, citing his legal efforts to overturn Wolf's mask mandate in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, successful opposition to Wolf's proposed taxes, and his support for a partisan investigation into 2020 presidential election.
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In 2017, Jake Corman sponsored Senate Bill 1, a pension reform legislation that was enacted.
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Jake Corman accused the NCAA of unfairly singling out Penn State and said that the sanctions were "extremely damaging to my community"; the NCAA responded that Jake Corman was seeking to politicize the NCAA's safety efforts.
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In 2018, Corman was the prime sponsor of an anti-hazing bill, which was signed into law later that year as Timothy J Piazza Anti-Hazing Law.
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In June 2019, Jake Corman made national headlines for aggressively yelling over Democratic state senator Katie Muth, as she read into record a letter from formerly homeless resident John Boyd, who encouraged representatives to not take away monthly General Assistance funds from him and other vulnerable citizens.