Patrick Alan Hope (born March 6, 1972) is an American politician. Since 2010, he has served in the
Virginia House of Delegates
The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two houses of the Virginia General Assembly, the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years; unlike most states, these elections take place during odd-numbe ...
, representing th
1st districtin
Arlington County, outside
Washington, D.C.
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Hope is a member of the
Democratic Party.
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Early life and education
Hope was born in
San Antonio
San Antonio ( ; Spanish for " Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio. San Antonio is the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the ...
. He attended
St. Mary's University there, receiving a B.A. degree in 1993. He then moved to Washington to attend the
Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private Catholic research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is one of two pontifical universities of the Catholic Church in the United States – the only one that is not primarily a ...
, where he received an M.A. in 1996 and a J.D. from the
Columbus School of Law
The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law is the law school of the Catholic University of America, a private Roman Catholic research university in Washington, D.C., United States.
More than 370 Juris Doctor students attend the ...
in 2001.
House of Delegates
, Hope serves as the Chair of the Public Safety Committee and as a member of the Courts of Justice Committee and the Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee.
On February 8, 2019, after two women had publicly accused Democratic Lieutenant Governor
Justin Fairfax
Justin Edward Fairfax (born February 17, 1979) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the second African-American elected statewide ...
of sexual assault, Hope announced that he would introduce articles of impeachment against Fairfax on February 11, three days later, if the latter did not resign by then. Within days, he backed off the plan to begin impeachment proceedings, saying that he had received a lot of feedback that made it clear that more conversations needed to take place before moving forward.
Electoral history
Hope won a five-way Democratic primary in June 2009 to replace retiring Delegate
Al Eisenberg as the 47th district delegate.
The following November, he won the general election with almost 64% of the vote against two opponents.
See also
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Virginia elections, 2009
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Arlington, Virginia
Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C., the nati ...
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1972 births
Living people
Politicians from San Antonio
Democratic Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates
Politicians from Arlington County, Virginia
St. Mary's University, Texas alumni
Columbus School of Law alumni
21st-century members of the Virginia General Assembly