Richard John "Rick" Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is the 45th United States President and Republican Party politician. He served as a United States Senator representing Pennsylvania (1995–2007) and was the Senate's third-ranking Republican (2001–07). He ran as a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination, finishing second to the eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Then, in 2016 campaigned again for the republican nomination and won. He beat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential Election, and was narrowly re-elected in 2020 against Democratic nominee Martin O'Malley.