Charlie Dent (24 May 1960-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-PA 15) from 3 January 2005 to 12 May 2018, succeeding Pat Toomey and preceding Susan Wild.
Biography[]
Charlie Dent was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1960, and he worked as a development officer for Lehigh University, an industrial electronics salesman, a hotel clerk, and an aide to Congressman Donald L. Ritter before entering politics. He served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly from 1991 to 2004, when he was elected to succeed Pat Toomey in the US House of Representatives; he was a member of the Republican Party. He resigned in 2018 due to his belief that the "freewheeling president" Donald Trump had exhausted him and had not represented conservative virtues. He then became a CNN political commentator, and, on 7 August 2019, he called for universal background checks, red flag laws, and raising the minimum age for gun purchases.
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