Pat Roberts, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pat Roberts

United States Senator from Kansas

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1936

Place of Birth: Topeka, Kansas, United States

Profession: politician, military officer, journalist, newspaper proprietor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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SenPatRoberts

Charles Patrick Roberts (born April 20, 1936) is an American politician of the Republican Party serving as the senior United States Senator from Kansas, a position he has held since 1997.
Roberts previously served as the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Born in Topeka, Kansas, Roberts is a graduate of Kansas State University.
He served as a captain in the U.S.
Marine Corps and worked as a newspaper reporter before entering politics in the late 1960s.
He was elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives in 1980 to succeed 1st District Congressman Keith Sebelius, for whom he had worked.
He served eight terms in the House, including one as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Roberts was elected to the U.S.
Senate in 1996, and is currently serving his fourth term.
On the Intelligence Committee, he was responsible for an investigation into the intelligence failures prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
He is currently the dean of Kansas's congressional delegation and Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee.
He is the first person to chair both the House and the Senate agriculture committees.On January 4, 2019, Roberts announced that he would not seek reelection in 2020.