Tony Perkins is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 20, 1963 in Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States. He stirred controversy when, as the manager of Woody Jenkins’ 1996 Senate campaign against Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu, he paid over eighty-thousand dollars to obtain the mail contacts of Ku Klux Klan member-turned-politician David Duke.
Perkins was born and raised in the northern Oklahoma city of Cleveland, and graduated in 1981 from Cleveland High School. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Liberty University. He later earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. After college, Perkins entered the United States Marine Corps. Following his tour of duty, he became a Baton Rouge police officer and also worked with the U.S. State Department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program instructing hundreds of police officers from around the world. Perkins later resigned from the police force.
Perkins won an open seat in the Louisiana House representing District 64 (the eastern Baton Rouge suburbs, including part of Livingston Parish) when he defeated Democrat Herman L. Milton of Baker 63% to 37% in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 21, 1995. He was elected on a conservative platform of strong families and limited government. Four years later, he was reelected without opposition. He retired from the legislature in 2004, fulfilling a promise to serve no more than two terms.
He and his wife, Lawana Lee, raised their five children in the Southern Baptist religious tradition.
He worked for a time as a Baton Rouge, Louisiana police officer.
Anthony Richard Perkins (born March 20, 1963) is president of the Family Research Council, a self described Christian conservative policy and lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C. Perkins, a Southern Baptist layman, was previously a police officer and television reporter, served two terms as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 2002. On May 14, 2018, he was appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
