Editing Rob Portman (section)

==Education and early career==
Portman graduated from [[Cincinnati Country Day School]] in 1974 and attended [[Dartmouth College]], where he started leaning to the [[right-wing|right]], and majored in [[anthropology]] and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1978.<ref name="Rob Portman.biography">{{cite news |url=http://www.biography.com/people/rob-portman-20840137 |title=Rob Portman.biography |publisher=Biography.com |year=2013 |access-date=April 2, 2013 |archive-date=March 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307063736/http://www.biography.com/people/rob-portman-20840137 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In Cincinnati, Portman worked on [[Bill Gradison]]'s congressional campaign, and Gradison soon became a mentor to Portman.<ref name="Rob Portman.biography" /> Portman next entered the [[University of Michigan Law School]], earning his [[Juris Doctor]] degree in 1984 and serving as vice president of the student senate.<ref name="congress1">{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=p000449 |title=PORTMAN, Robert Jones (Rob) - Biographical Information |website=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]] |publisher=[[United States Congress]]}}</ref> During law school, he embarked on a [[kayak]]ing and hiking trip across China and met Jane Dudley, whom he married in 1986.<ref name="Cincinnati Kid: Jane Portman">{{Cite news |url=http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/features/story.aspx?ID=1756922 |title=Cincinnati Kid: Jane Portman |publisher=Cincinnati Magazine |date=September 1, 2012 |access-date=December 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121216134201/http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/features/story.aspx?ID=1756922 |archive-date=December 16, 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> After graduating from law school, Portman moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked for the law firm [[Patton Boggs]]. Some describe his role there as a lobbyist; others say that such a description is inaccurate.<ref name="DartCauc1">{{cite web|last=Tapper|first=Jake|title=The Dartmouth Caucus|url=http://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/reprint-March-2000.pdf|work=Dartmouth Alumni Magazine|access-date=August 10, 2012|author-link=Jake Tapper|date=March 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222174225/http://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/reprint-March-2000.pdf|archive-date=February 22, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rob Portman background |url= http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/rob_portman/index.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=August 10, 2012|first=Adam|last=Nagourney}}</ref><ref name="DartCauc2">{{cite web|last=Tapper |first=Jake |author-link=Jake Tapper |title=The Dartmouth Caucus (2011) |url= http://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/the-dartmouth-caucus/ |work=Dartmouth Alumni Magazine|access-date=August 10, 2012 |date=July–August 2011}}</ref><ref name="wapo-insider">{{cite news  |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-rob-portman-who-could-a-vice-presidential-contender-is-a-washington-insider/2012/07/16/gJQArcQCpW_story.html |title=Republican Rob Portman, who could be a vice presidential contender, is a Washington insider |date=July 16, 2012 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |last2=Crites|first2=Alice |access-date=July 17, 2012 |first1=Jerry|last1=Markon |quote='He was not in any classic or normal sense a lobbyist,' said Stuart M. Pape, a Patton Boggs partner who supervised Portman.}}</ref> Portman next became an associate at Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP, a law firm in [[Cincinnati]].<ref>[http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/08/rob_portman_was_drawn_from_top.html Rob Portman was drawn from 'top notch' law career to public service.] August 11, 2012. Sabrina Eaton, ''The Cleveland Plain Dealer''. Retrieved August 22, 2012.</ref>

In 1989, Portman began his career in government as an associate [[White House Counsel]] under President [[George H. W. Bush]].<ref name="loyalist">{{cite news |newspaper=The [[New York Times]]|title=Bush Loyalist's New Role Is 'Facilitator' in House |date=February 16, 2003 |access-date=July 13, 2012 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/us/bush-loyalist-s-new-role-is-facilitator-in-house.html |first=David|last=Rosenbaum}}</ref> From 1989 to 1991, he served as Bush's deputy assistant and director of the [[White House Office#Office of Legislative Affairs|White House Office of Legislative Affairs]].<ref name="congress1" /> While serving as White House counsel, Portman visited China, [[Egypt]], [[Kuwait]], [[Saudi Arabia]] and the [[United Arab Emirates]].<ref name="RealClearPolitics">{{cite news |url= http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/07/18/on_vp_list_pawlenty__portman_boast_foreign_policy_heft_114824.html |title=On VP List, Pawlenty & Portman Boast Foreign Policy Heft |publisher=RealClearPolitics |date=July 18, 2012 |access-date=December 10, 2012}}</ref>