A young DeSantis plays Little League Baseball in 1991. DeSantis was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1978, and he lived much of his childhood in Dunedin, Florida.
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DeSantis' yearbook photo from Dunedin High School in Florida. He would go on to Yale University, where he played on the baseball team.
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DeSantis joined the US Navy in 2004. This was his first official photo as a Navy ensign. He was assigned to the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps.
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DeSantis is joined by his wife, Casey, as House Speaker John Boehner swears him into Congress in January 2013. DeSantis represented Florida's 6th District until 2018.
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DeSantis participates in a House committee meeting in May 2013.
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DeSantis, right, prepares for a June 2013 news conference to oppose the Marketplace Fairness Act, also called the internet tax, which would require online retailers to collect a sales tax at the time of a purchase.
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DeSantis is interviewed by a TV news crew outside of the House chamber as Congress prepared to vote on defunding President Obama's executive actions on immigration in January 2015.
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US Rep. Trey Gowdy, left, tosses a golf ball to DeSantis during the First Tee Congressional Challenge golf tournament in July 2015.
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DeSantis addresses a crowd in Tampa, Florida, at a rally for President Donald Trump in July 2018.
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DeSantis, second from right, takes an airboat tour of the Florida Everglades in September 2018. He was running for governor at the time.
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DeSantis shakes hands with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum after a CNN debate in October 2018.
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DeSantis attends a campaign rally in Orlando in November 2018.
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DeSantis and his wife, Casey, celebrate after he won the governor's race in November 2018. DeSantis married Casey in 2010. She was a former newscaster in Jacksonville.
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Trump congratulates DeSantis on his win in December 2018. DeSantis and other governors-elect were meeting with Trump at the White House.
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DeSantis kisses his wife after being sworn in as governor in January 2019.
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DeSantis gives the state of the state address on the first day of the legislative session in March 2019.
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DeSantis and his wife hold up Orlando Magic jerseys before an NBA playoff game in April 2019.
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The DeSantises carry flowers to the site of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June 2019. It was the three-year anniversary of the deadly shooting there.
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DeSantis speaks while meeting with Trump and White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Deborah Birx in April 2020. Trump met with DeSantis to discuss ways that Florida was planning to gradually re-open the state in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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DeSantis and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the finance chairwoman of Trump's campaign, applaud during a Trump rally in Sanford, Florida, in October 2020.
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DeSantis and his daughter Madison lean back in a chair during a meeting of the Florida presidential electors in Tallahassee, Florida, in December 2020.
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DeSantis pushes Vera Leip, 88, in her wheelchair after she received a Covid-19 vaccine in Pompano Beach, Florida, in December 2020. Leip's retirement community was one of the first in the country to receive vaccinations.
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DeSantis speaks at the opening of the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2021.
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DeSantis helps hold a python as he kicks off the 2021 Python Challenge in Miami. The 10-day event gave prizes to participants who caught the most and the biggest pythons. The event began as a way for hunters to help control the population of the invasive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades.
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The DeSantises visit a memorial for those missing after the partial collapse of a residential building in Surfside, Florida, in July 2021.
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DeSantis and his wife, Casey, have three children: from left, daughters Mamie and Madison and son Mason.
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DeSantis scolds high school students for wearing masks at a March 2022 news conference at the University of South Florida. "You do not have to wear those masks," he told them. "I mean, please take them off." DeSantis had been among the chief skeptics of the efficacy of mask-wearing as a means to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. In 2021, he signed an executive order barring schools from requiring students to wear masks.
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DeSantis speaks during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa in July 2022.
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DeSantis and President Joe Biden survey areas hit by Hurricane Ian in October 2022.
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DeSantis is joined by his wife, Casey, and their children at an election night party in Tampa in November 2022. DeSantis defeated Democratic challenger Charlie Crist to win a second term.
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DeSantis speaks with New Hampshire state legislators during an event at the Bedford Village Inn in Bedford, New Hampshire, on May 19, 2023. He launched his 2024 presidential bid later that week.
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DeSantis speaks to reporters during an Iowa State University football game in Ames, Iowa, in September 2023.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a town hall in Hampton, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, January 17. DeSantis ended his White House bid on Sunday, January 21, nearly a week after his underwhelming performance in Iowa.
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