1. Thomas Stuart Price Perriello was born on October 9,1974 and is an American attorney, diplomat, and politician.
41 Facts About Tom Perriello
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For over four years until July 2023, Tom Perriello served as the executive director for US Programs at the Open Society Foundations.
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Tom Perriello ran for in the United States House of Representatives in 2008.
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Tom Perriello narrowly defeated six-term Republican incumbent Virgil H Goode Jr.
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Tom Perriello was defeated in the 2010 election by Republican state senator Robert Hurt.
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Tom Perriello ran for the Democratic nomination in the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election, but lost to Ralph Northam.
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On February 26,2024, Tom Perriello was appointed as US Special Envoy for Sudan.
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Tom Perriello resigned on January 18,2025, shortly before the Second inauguration of Donald Trump.
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Thomas Stuart Price Tom Perriello was born on October 9,1974, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and grew up in Ivy, a small, affluent, unincorporated community west of Charlottesville.
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Tom Perriello is the son of Linda, a financial analyst, and Vito Anthony Perriello Jr.
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Tom Perriello attended Murray Elementary School, Meriwether Lewis Elementary School, Henley Middle School and Western Albemarle High School in the county school system, and then graduated from St Anne's-Belfield School, a private school.
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Tom Perriello attained the rank of Eagle Scout in Boy Scout Troop 114 in Ivy, and was a legislative page in the Virginia House of Delegates.
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Tom Perriello has worked as a consultant to the International Center for Transitional Justice in Kosovo, Darfur, and Afghanistan where he worked on justice-based security strategies.
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Tom Perriello has been a fellow at The Century Foundation and consultant to the National Council of Churches of Christ.
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Tom Perriello had trailed Goode in the polls by 30 percent only three months before the election.
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Ultimately, Tom Perriello prevailed largely on the strength of a more than 25,000 vote margin in Charlottesville and surrounding Albemarle County.
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Tom Perriello's performance showed the most dramatic improvements over past Democratic voting in the more conservative areas of the district hardest hit by decades of job loss and economic slowdown.
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For example, Tom Perriello significantly outperformed Obama in the district's strongly conservative southwestern portion.
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Tom Perriello lost to Republican nominee State Senator Robert Hurt in a race between the two and Independent candidate Jeffrey Clark.
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In recognition of his support for gun rights, Tom Perriello received the endorsement of the NRA Political Victory Fund.
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Ultimately, Tom Perriello lost by 3.9 percent, which was considered a surprisingly close result in the Republican-leaning district.
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Tom Perriello ran for in the United States House of Representatives in 2008.
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Tom Perriello narrowly defeated six-term Republican incumbent Virgil H Goode Jr.
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Tom Perriello was defeated in the 2010 election by Republican state senator Robert Hurt.
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Tom Perriello framed his positions as "for the people and not for the corporate establishment" and did not focus on partisan divisions.
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Tom Perriello described his vote for Cap and Trade legislation as a national security imperative, stating "There's got to be something more important than getting reelected," in an interview with Politico.
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Tom Perriello voted for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March 2010.
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Economic Policy: Tom Perriello voted against the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009, because the bill extended unemployment benefits for only some states and excluded Virginia.
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Tom Perriello pressed the administration and Congress to include more infrastructure spending in the stimulus bill, and authored the Every Penny to Main Street Act, which would have used the money that banks paid back from the bailout to directly create new jobs in construction.
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Tom Perriello repeatedly urged Democrats to introduce a comprehensive national jobs bill.
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Gun Control: Tom Perriello opposed a ban on assault weapons while in Congress.
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In 2010, Tom Perriello voted in support of the defense bill.
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Sustainable Energy and Energy Independence: Tom Perriello has been vocal in his support of sustainable energy solutions and energy independence.
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Hate Speech and Discrimination: Tom Perriello strongly condemned the Unite the Right rally that occurred in Charlottesville in August 2017.
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Tom Perriello was charged with implementing the administration's policies of preventing mass atrocities and supporting the emergence of peaceful, democratic societies.
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Tom Perriello later wrote about the political challenges facing Congo in the Washington Post.
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On January 5,2017, Tom Perriello announced that he would run for Governor of Virginia in the 2017 election on a platform centered around economic justice as well as resistance to the Trump Administration.
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Tom Perriello has since apologized repeatedly for the vote, calling it a "bad vote and a bad pledge," while promising that he sees abortion as a "fundamental right" that should be accessible to all women.
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Tom Perriello refused to accept campaign contributions from Dominion Energy, a state-regulated utility and Virginia's biggest political donor.
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Tom Perriello became CEO of Win Virginia, a PAC dedicated to helping Democrats win back the Virginia House of Delegates in 2017.
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Open Society announced on October 10,2018, that Tom Perriello would become executive director of the Foundations' US Programs starting November 12,2018.