18 Facts About Philip Baruth

Philip E Baruth was born on February 10,1962 and is an American politician, novelist, biographer, professor, and former radio commentator from Vermont.

Philip Baruth served as Majority Leader from 2013 to 2017, when he endorsed his successor, Becca Balint.

Philip Baruth now serves as the senate president pro tempore.

Philip Baruth is Professor of English at the University of Vermont, where he has served on the faculty since 1993.

Philip Baruth's teaching is primarily in the areas of creative writing, postmodern American literature and culture, eighteenth-century British literature, and the literature of Vermont.

Philip Baruth was elected Majority Leader of the Vermont Senate in 2013, and served until 2017.

From 2017 to 2020, Philip Baruth served as Chair of the Senate Education Committee.

Philip Baruth has previously served on the Judiciary, Appropriations, Education, Economic Development, and Agriculture Committees.

Philip Baruth has served on the PreKindergarten-16 Council and the Vermont Child Poverty Council.

Philip Baruth began his public service career as a member of the Burlington Board of School Commissioners.

Philip Baruth first proposed an assault weapons ban in 2013 as Majority Leader and later supported a comprehensive background check bill in 2015.

Philip Baruth was the driving force in the Senate behind the passage of the 2016 Paid Sick Leave bill, in recognition of which he was named Legislator of the Year by the Main Street Alliance of Vermont.

Philip Baruth is the author of four novels and more than a dozen published short stories, as well as screenplays, radio commentaries, and works of scholarship.

Philip Baruth's novel The X President was a New York Times Notable Book of 2003.

Philip Baruth has led workshops as a Visiting Writer at the Champlain College Vermont Young Writers' Conference since 2001.

From 1998 to 2009, Philip Baruth was a regular commentator for Vermont Public Radio.

Philip Baruth won the 2009 Public Radio News Directors Award: First Place for "Birth Rate Blues," a satirical take on Vermont's low fertility statistics, in the nationwide Public Radio Commentary category.

From 2006 to 2009, Philip Baruth appeared among the regular rotating panel of journalists and publishers on "Vermont This Week," a half-hour Sunday news show produced by Vermont Public Television.