Editing David Vitter (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:Vitter Family meets with Vice President Cheney.gif|thumb|David Vitter and his family with Vice President [[Dick Cheney]]]]
David Bruce Vitter<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/candidates/294890/ | newspaper=The Washington Post| title=David Bruce Vitter (R)| year=2004 }}</ref> was born on May 3, 1961,<ref>{{CongLinks |congbio=v000127 |votesmart=4615 |fec=S4LA00057 |congress=david-vitter/1609}}</ref> in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the son of Audrey Malvina (née St. Raymond) and Albert Leopold Vitter. Vitter graduated in 1979 from [[De La Salle High School (New Orleans, Louisiana)|De La Salle High School]] in New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|year= 1998|url= http://www.delasallenola.com/content.cfm?id=148|title= De La Salle High School 1990–1999 Award Recipients|publisher= [[De La Salle High School (New Orleans, Louisiana)|De La Salle High School]]|access-date= November 6, 2009|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110709011339/http://www.delasallenola.com/content.cfm?id=148|archive-date= July 9, 2011}}</ref> While a student at De La Salle, Vitter participated in the [[Close Up Foundation|Close Up Washington]] civic education program. He received a Bachelor of Arts from [[Harvard College]] in 1983; a second B.A. from [[Magdalen College, Oxford]] in 1985, as a [[Rhodes Scholar]]; and a [[Juris Doctor]] degree in 1988 from the [[Tulane University Law School]] in New Orleans. He was a practicing lawyer,<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/candidates/294890/|title= David Bruce Vitter (R)|newspaper= The Washington Post|access-date= March 19, 2009}}</ref><ref name="SLU042701" /> and [[adjunct professor|adjunct law professor]] at Tulane and [[Loyola University New Orleans]].<ref name="SLU042701">{{cite web|date= April 27, 2001|url= http://www2.selu.edu/NewsEvents/PublicInfoOffice/vitter-sp01commencement.htm|title= U.S. Rep. David Vitter To Present SLU Commencement Address|publisher= [[Southeastern Louisiana University]] [[Public Information Officer|Public Information Office]]|access-date= March 19, 2009|quote= While serving in the state legislature, Vitter was a business attorney as well as an adjunct law professor at Tulane and Loyola Universities.}}</ref>

Vitter and his wife [[Wendy Vitter|Wendy]], a former prosecutor,<ref name="WP-07-10-07"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nola.com/national_politics/2018/01/wendy_vitter_federal_judge.html |title=Wendy Vitter, with one exception, might have what it takes to be federal judge|date=January 27, 2018 }}</ref> have four children. Vitter's brother [[Jeffrey Vitter|Jeffrey]] is a computer scientist who has served as chancellor of the [[University of Mississippi]] from January 2016 to January 2019.