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==Early life== Shrum was born in [[Connellsville, Pennsylvania]] on July 21, 1943,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/07/22/personalities/d10ca853-ebb8-48db-b12a-10af572b5f38/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630025024/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/07/22/personalities/d10ca853-ebb8-48db-b12a-10af572b5f38/ |archive-date=2018-06-30 |title=PERSONALITIES - The Washington Post|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] }}</ref> the son of Cecilia (Welsh) and Clarence Shrum. His father was a tool-and-die maker and his maternal grandfather was a member of the [[Pennsylvania State Senate]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/nyregion/27profile.html?_r=0|title=It's Back to School for a Beaten Political Warrior|newspaper=The New York Times|date=27 January 2005|last1=Hedges|first1=Chris}}</ref> His mother was from an Irish immigrant family.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AaTfe9RUIIkC&q=Cecilia+welsh+shrum&pg=PT447 |title = No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner|isbn = 9781416545583|last1 = Shrum|first1 = Robert|date = 2007-06-05| publisher=Simon & Schuster }}</ref> Shrum was raised in [[Los Angeles]]. He is a graduate of [[Loyola High School of Los Angeles]] and [[Georgetown University]] (where he was named the outstanding debater at the 1965 national [[policy debate]] championship, the [[National Debate Tournament]]). On December 21, 1965, he made his first television appearance as a law student, debating [[Henry Kissinger]] on a broadcast of the CBS program ''Town Meeting of the World.''<ref>[https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/11786604 Yale University Library, "Town Meeting of the World," CBS, Dec 21, 1965]</ref> He later received a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from [[Harvard Law School]].
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