Mike Pence

Some Lesser Known Facts About Mike Pence

• Mike Pence often says,
  

  I am a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.”

• Mike Pence was named after his maternal grandfather, Richard Michael Cawley, who was a Chicago bus driver and came to the United States from Ireland in 1923.

• His father ran a string of gas stations. Mike Pence in his office displayed his father’s Bronze Star that he won in 1953 after serving in the US Army during the Korean War.

• Mike Pence grew up in a Roman Catholic and Democratic family. He voted for Jimmy Carter in 1980.

• In college, he became an evangelical Christian and then a conservative Republican. According to Mike Pence, his religious conversion was due to his longing for a more personal relationship with God.

• Mike Pence has vowed never to eat alone with women other than his wife, and when he was in Congress, he allowed only male aides to work late with him.

• He doesn’t support gay marriage, and he voted against employment nondiscrimination protections for gay people.

• Mike worked as an admission counselor after graduating from Hanover.

  

• In 1980, he voted for Jimmy Carter.

• In 1986, he worked as an attorney in private practice, after graduating from law school.

• From 1991 to 1993, he worked as president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, a conservative think tank.

• From 1992 to 1999, he hosted a talk radio show, “The Mike Pence Show.”

• Serving from 2001 to 2012, he has been a six-term Congressman.

• In 2001, he opposed the No Child Left Behind Policy supported by the then-President George W. Bush.

• For having a business-friendly climate, Indiana appeared among the top ten states during Mike Pence’s tenure as the Governor of Indiana.

• As the Governor of Indiana, he signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2015, which empowered business owners to refuse service to L.G.B.T.Q. people; however, these provisions were heavily criticised, and Pence and Republican legislators later amended the law.

• Before endorsing Donald Trump for the presidential run in 2016, Mike Pence had endorsed Ted Cruz.

• On 14 July 2016, Donald Trump announced Mike Pence’s name as the Vice-Presidential candidate.

• In January 2017, Mike Pence became the first sitting vice president to make a speech at the March for Life, an anti-abortion rally in Washington.

  

• In February 2017, he became the first vice president to cast a tie-breaking vote on a cabinet nomination when he voted for Betsy DeVos as the next education secretary.

• In August 2018, he called for the establishment of a Space Force by 2020.

• In February 2020, he was appointed in charge of the US government’s response to the novel coronavirus; the White House’s handling of the outbreak had been heavily criticised.

• In April 2021, Mike Pence founded a communications group, Advancing American Freedom.

  

• On 14 April 2021, he underwent surgery to have a pacemaker implanted.

• In an interview in November 2022, Pence said there were better candidates than Trump for the 2024 presidential run and admitted he was considering running himself.

• On 15 November 2022, he published his memoir “So Help Me God” in which he mentioned his experience during the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

  

• Those who have worked with him say Pence is a great mimic; he can mimic George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Rush Limbaugh.

Mike Pence and Donald Trump