Editing Rob Portman (section)

==Early life==
Portman was born in 1955, in [[Cincinnati]], Ohio, the son of Joan (née Jones) and William C. "Bill" Portman II. His family was [[Presbyterian]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/rob-portman-20840137|title=Rob Portman Biography|website=www.biography.com|language=en-us|access-date=January 30, 2017|archive-date=January 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114001208/http://www.biography.com/people/rob-portman-20840137|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120624/NEWS010607/306240005/The-loyal-soldier-Rob-Portman-next-vice-president- "The Loyal Soldier: Is Rob Portman the next vice president?" ''Cincinnati Enquirer'', June 25, 2012. By Dan Horn and Deirdre Shesgreen.]</ref>

[[Image:The Golden Lamb Inn and Restaurant.JPG|thumb|right|The [[Golden Lamb Inn]], [[Ohio|Ohio's]] oldest continually operating restaurant and inn,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.goldenlamb.com/pages/history/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207002433/http://www.goldenlamb.com/pages/history/ |archive-date=February 7, 2012 |title=History: Overview |publisher=The Golden Lamb. goldenlamb.com|access-date=February 15, 2018}}</ref> is owned by the Portman family.]]
[[File:Bush Contact Sheet P17124 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Portman with President [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1990]]

In 1926, Portman's grandfather Robert Jones purchased the [[Golden Lamb Inn]] in [[Lebanon, Ohio]], and, together with his future wife Virginia Kunkle Jones, refurbished it and decorated it with antique collectibles and [[Shaker furniture|Shaker]] furniture.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/03/28/loc_o.jones28.html|title=Virginia K. Jones owned landmark Golden Lamb Inn: Family still owns her 'labor of love'|newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=May 28, 2004|access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref> The couple ran the inn together until 1969, when they retired.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.historiclebanonohio.com/?q=book/export/html/22|title=The Golden Lamb Inn|publisher=Historic Lebanon, Ohio|access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref>

When Portman was young, his father started the Portman Equipment Company, a [[forklift]] dealership where he and his siblings worked growing up.{{Citation needed|reason=Previous citation was Portman's election website, which cannot be accepted as a source|date=August 2019}} From his mother Joan, a [[Rockefeller Republican|liberal Republican]], Portman inherited his sympathy for the [[United States Republican Party|Republican Party]].<ref name="dispatch">{{cite web|url=http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/insight/2010/08/29/meticulous-has-an-adventurous-side-that-led-him-into-politics.html|title=Meticulous Rob Portman has an adventurous side that led him into politics|date=August 29, 2010|work=The Columbus Dispatch|access-date=August 10, 2012}}</ref>