Was born on September 14, 1978, in Jacksonville, Florida.
[1] He is of Italian descent.
[2] His family moved to Orlando, Florida, before relocating to Dunedin, Florida, when he was six years old.
[3] In 1991, he was a member of the Little League team from Dunedin National that made it to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
(4] After graduating from Dunedin High School in 1997, he attended Yale University. He was Captain of Yale’s varsity baseball team and joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.
[5] On the Yale baseball team, he was an outfielder; as a senior in 2001, he had the team’s best batting average at .336.
[6] He graduated from Yale in 2001 with a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in History.
[7] He then spent a year as a History Teacher at the Darlington School.
[8] He attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 2005 with a Juris Doctor Cum Laude.
[9] He received his Reserve Naval Officer’s commission and assignment to the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) in 2004 at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center in Dallas, Texas, while still a student at Harvard Law School.
[10] He completed Naval Justice School in 2005.
[11] Later that year, he received orders to the JAG Trial Service Office Command South East at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, as a Prosecutor.
[12] In 2006, he was promoted from Lieutenant, Junior Grade to Lieutenant. He worked for the Commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), working directly with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Joint Detention Facility.
13] In 2007, he reported to the Naval Special Warfare Command Group in Coronado, California, where he was assigned to SEAL Team One and deployed to Iraq with the Troop surge as the Legal Advisor to the SEAL Commander, Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah.
[14] He returned to the U.S. in April 2008, at which time he was reassigned to the Naval Region Southeast Legal Service.
[15] The U.S. Department of Justice appointed him to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida.
[16] He was assigned as a Trial Defense Counsel until his honorable discharge from active duty in February 2010.
[17] He concurrently accepted a reserve commission as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the US Navy Reserve.
[18] He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Iraq Campaign Medal.
[19 He represented Florida’s 6th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018.
Oh, by the way, the former Navy Lt., is Ron DeSantis, Gov. of Florida.
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