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You can open his bio on the site where it shows his picture and "OCCUPATION: Senator, 2011 - Present"

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The Hill site is wrong.

The ACLU Pat Toomey is Patrick C. Toomey. Picture of him here: https://www.justsecurity.org/author/toomeypatrick/

The Senator is Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr.

Maybe the Hill automates scanning the bylines and adds links to bios. Obviously it isn't perfect.

The concept of using the same name for 2 different people, in the same household, has always befuddled me.

I know of a family with three generations of people with same First Middle Last name, but since grandfather goes by First, father goes by First Middle and grandson goes by Middle, there's no actual confusion.

Except where your trying to do some paperwork. Ok

I stopped reading One Hundred Years of Solitude because I had enough of people across generations having the same damn name.

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