Senator Patrick Leahy starred in five "Batman"

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If Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy has always made a point of defending the justice of his country, he has never missed an opportunity to do the same for Gotham City.

Indeed, in addition to holding the record for longevity in office in the current Senate, the elected Vermont has played in no less than five

 !

Fan of comics since his childhood, the politician of 80 years has yet waited until the 90s to appeal to the batman in his campaigns as recalled by CNN.

It was in 1996 that he collaborated with DC Comics to create a graphic novel called

, a plea to end the use of anti-personnel mines by the US military.

But it was in 1995 that he first appeared onscreen in the infamous

.

Composition roles

The same year, Patrick Leahy lent his voice to a governor character in the animated series

and it is often in the shoes of a politician that he appeared in other films devoted to the superhero.

We can thus see him in

, but also in

and in

where he even faces the Joker played by Heath Ledger.

Finally, he appears as a board member of Wayne Enterprises in

.

However, Patrick Leahy will not appear in the next

with Robert Pattinson because he has too much to do.

Indeed, as president pro tempore of the Senate of the United States, he is third in the order of presidential succession, just after Kamala Harris, the vice-president of Joe Biden.

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