Birth Name: Patrick Joseph Toomey
Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island
Date of Birth: November 17, 1961
Ethnicity:
*Irish (father)
*Portuguese (mother)
Pat Toomey is an American politician. A Republican, he has served as U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania since 2011.
Pat’s paternal grandparents were Joseph Michael Toomey (the son of Patrick Toomey and Catherine M. McCarthy) and Helen M. Sullivan. Joseph was born in Rhode Island, to Irish parents. Helen was Irish.
Pat’s maternal grandparents were Antone/Anthony S. Andrews (the son of John Andrews and Angelica “Anna” Duart) and Mary/Marie Rosa Traverse (the daughter of Jose M. Traverse and Maria Concessa). Antone was born in Massachusetts, to Portuguese parents, from the Azores. Pat’s grandmother Mary was born in Rhode Island, also to Portuguese parents from the Azores.
Source: Genealogy of Pat Toomey – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Photo: “Pat Toomey, Official Portrait, 112th Congress” by United States Senate – http://toomey.senate.gov/. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons.