Birth place: Aurora, Illinois
Birth name: John Dennis Hastert
Father: Jack Hastert, former restaurant owner
Mother: Naomi (Nussle) Hastert
–
November 15, 2007 – Announces his resignation on the House floor. He formally resigns on November 26 after 20 years in office.
June 2008 – Joins the Washington lobbying firm of Dickstein Shapiro as a senior advisor.
June 8, 2009 – Dennis Hastert’s son, Ethan, announces he will run for his father’s former congressional seat but later loses in the GOP primary.
May 7, 2010 – Hastert is conferred the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun by Emperor Akihito of Japan.
