Thomas Wingett "Tom" Corbett, Jr. (born June 17, 1949) is an American politician who served as the 46th Governor of Pennsylvania from January 18, 2011 to January 20, 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.Born in Philadelphia, Corbett is a graduate of the St. Mary's University School of Law and served as a captain in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.Corbett began his career as an assistant district attorney in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in 1976. Corbett then joined the U.S. Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, serving from 1980 to 1983, upon entering private practice. In 1988 Corbett was first elected to public office as a Commissioner in the Pittsburgh suburb of Shaler, before serving as the United States Attorney for Western Pennsylvania from 1989 to 1993 in the George H.W. Bush administration. In 1995, after the resignation of Ernie Preate, Corbett was appointed to fill the remainder of Preate's term as Attorney General of Pennsylvania, until 1997. Corbett then reentered private practice and worked as the general counsel for Waste Management, Inc before being elected Attorney General of Pennsylvania in 2004. Corbett was then elected to a second term in 2008, serving a total of two non-consecutive tenures as Attorney General from 1995 to 1997, and 2005 to 2011.After Democratic Governor Ed Rendell was term-limited from running for a third term, Corbett declared his candidacy for Governor in March 2009. He won the Republican nomination against State Representative Sam Rohrer in the primary election and defeated Democratic nominee Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato, with 54.5% of the vote in the 2010 general election. He was sworn into office on January 18, 2011. He suffered from declining poll numbers. On November 8, 2013 he announced his intention to run for a second term as Pennsylvania's chief executive. Corbett, who was unopposed in the Republican gubernatorial primary in May 2014, ultimately lost his bid for a second term to Democrat Tom Wolf in the November 4, 2014 general election. This election marked the first time an incumbent Governor running for re-election in Pennsylvania lost. After his term expired on January 20, 2015 he returned to private life.
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