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==Personal life== Cantor met his wife, Diana Marcy Fine, on a [[blind date]], and they were married in 1989.<ref name=WhoWho> "Eric I. Cantor." ''Marquis Who's Who'', 2009. Reproduced in [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Biography Resource Center]. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. Document Number: K2013384111. Retrieved December 14, 2008. Fee.</ref><ref name="Roig-Franzia2008">{{cite news |first=Manuel |last=Roig-Franzia |title=The Pathfinder: New House Whip Eric Cantor Aims to be the GOP's Out-of-the-Wilderness Guide |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/10/AR2008121003751.html?sub=AR |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | pages=C1, C4 |date=December 11, 2008 |access-date=December 14, 2008}}</ref><ref name=JewishWomen2003> {{cite news |url=http://www.jwmag.org/articles/08Fall03/p15c.asp |title=Diana Cantor: Helping Families Finance College |access-date=December 14, 2008 |first=Pauline Dubkin |last=Yearwood |date=Fall 2003 |work=Jewish Woman |publisher=Jewish Women International |location=Washington, D.C. | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030911111324/http://www.jwmag.org/articles/08Fall03/p15c.asp |archive-date=September 11, 2003}}</ref> They have three children, Evan, Jenna, and Michael.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/five-things-you-might-not-know-about-eric-cantor|title=Five Things You Might Not Know About Eric Cantor|website=ABC News}}</ref> Diana Cantor is a lawyer, [[certified public accountant]], and a managing director in a division of [[Emigrant Bank]], a subsidiary of [[New York Private Bank & Trust Corp.]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/bank-employing-gop-house-leaders-wife-got-bailout-bucks-090123 |title=Bank Employing GOP House Leader's Wife Got Bailout Bucks|access-date=March 25, 2009 |first=Aram |last=Roston |date=January 23, 2009 |publisher=[[House Committee on Financial Services]]}}</ref> She founded, and from 1996 until 2008 was executive director of, the [[Virginia College Savings Plan]] (an agency of the [[Commonwealth of Virginia]]). She was also [[chairman of the board]] of the [[College Savings Plans Network]].<ref name=JewishWomen2003/><ref name=Cantor2004>{{cite web |url=http://financialservices.house.gov/media/pdf/060204dc.pdf |title=Testimony of Diana F. Cantor before the House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises |access-date=December 14, 2008 |first=Diana F. |last=Cantor |date=June 2, 2004 |publisher=[[House Committee on Financial Services]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217013329/http://financialservices.house.gov/media/pdf/060204dc.pdf |archive-date=December 17, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.richmondsunlight.com/bill/2008/hj382/fulltext/ |title=HJ382: Commending Diana F. Cantor |access-date=December 14, 2008 |first=Kirk |last=Cox |author-link=Kirk Cox |date=February 11, 2008| quote=Diana F. Cantor will step down from her position in 2008, having served the Commonwealth since April 24, 1996, as the outstanding founding executive director of the Virginia Higher Education Tuition Trust Fund, subsequently renamed the [[Virginia College Savings Plan]]... }} February 15, 2008 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote.</ref> Unlike her husband, she favors [[Abortion-rights movements|abortion rights]] and supports [[same-sex marriage]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.loop21.com/eric-cantors-wife-pro-choice-pro-marriage-equality |title=Eric Cantor's Wife is Pro-Choice, Pro-Marriage Equality |last=Maxwell |first=Zerlina |date=January 6, 2012 |publisher=Loop21 |access-date=January 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108081748/http://www.loop21.com/eric-cantors-wife-pro-choice-pro-marriage-equality |archive-date=January 8, 2012 }}</ref>
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