Ran unsuccessfully for Republican nomination for President in 2000. He is presently a contributor and host on Fox News, mostly on Heartland.
[1] Persistent rumors of homosexuality dating back to the mid 1990s. Karen Tumulty, "The Baiting Game", Time 14 October 1996: "For almost 14 years it had passed without comment that the local Congressman, John Kasich, the powerful chairman of the House Budget Committee, stretches his paycheck by sharing a Virginia town house for the two or three nights a week that Congress is in session. His housemate? His male chief of staff. Last month Cynthia Ruccia, Kasich's Democratic challenger, called for a Justice Department investigation of what she said was 'a serious appearance of impropriety' because Kasich, who is divorced, lived with someone whose government salary he controls."
Father: (mailman)
Mother: (postal clerk)
Wife: Mary Lee Griffith (div.)
Wife: Karen Waldbillig Kasich (hospital communications consultant, m. 22-Mar-1997)
Daughter: Emma
Daughter: Reese
High School: (McKees Rocks, PA)
University: BA Political Science, Ohio State University (1974)
Lehman Brothers Managing Director, Investment Banking Division
US Congressman, Ohio 12th (1983-2001)
Ohio State Senate (1979-83)
Member of the Board of Invacare (2001-)
Member of the Board of Instinet
Member of the Board of Worthington Industries (2001-)
American Legislative Exchange Council
Caring Institute Honorary Trustee
Pioneer PAC
Washington Legal Foundation National Board of Advisors
Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity
Croatian Ancestry
TELEVISION
The Heartland with John Kasich Host (2001-)
The O'Reilly Factor Guest Host
Author of books:
Courage is Contagious: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the Face of America (1998)
AKA John Richard Kasich