Although born in Washington, D.C., I was raised on a 222 acre farm near Shepherdstown, West Virginia. I attended Saint James School in Maryland and Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, where I graduated with a B.A. in Political Science. After graduation, I returned to Washington, D.C. where I had a successful career working in the U.S. House of Representatives, the United States Senate, a leading Washington telecommunications law firm and the worl...