Rick Santorum Net Worth

While at the Senate, Santorum acquired top GOP leadership and distinguished himself as an ardent social conservative, emphasizing his opposition to abortion and gay marriage. After his departure from the Senate, he went on work as a consultant, lawyer and news contributor. Still politically active, he ran as a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination. However, he ended up as a runner-up to the eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Santorum also had a short lived campaign for the 2016 presidential election. In 2017 he joined CNN as a political commentator. Married with eight children, he currently resides in Great Falls, Virginia.