Michael Newbold "Mike" Castle (born July 2, 1939) is an American lawyer and Congressman from Wilmington in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Lieutenant Governor of Delaware, and two terms as Governor of Delaware. He is serving his ninth term as congressman. On October 6, 2009 he announced his candidacy for the Senate seat once held by current Vice President Joseph ...
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Michael Newbold "Mike" Castle (born July 2, 1939) is an American lawyer and Congressman from Wilmington in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Lieutenant Governor of Delaware, and two terms as Governor of Delaware. He is serving his ninth term as congressman. On October 6, 2009 he announced his candidacy for the Senate seat once held by current Vice President Joseph Biden.
Castle is a graduate of Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He married Jane DiSabatino in 1992 and they have no children. They are members of the Roman Catholic Church. He is a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin.
Castle was Deputy Attorney General in Delaware in 1965 and 1966 and was elected to the Delaware House of Representatives in 1966. He served one term there during the 1967/68 session and then was elected to the Delaware State Senate...
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