Background
Foley grew up in a working-class family the Philadelphia suburb of Flourtown.
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Foley grew up in a working-class family the Philadelphia suburb of Flourtown.
He attended Dartmouth College and received a law degree from Yale Law School.
He became President of Mount Aloysius College in August, 2010. After spending two years working with an non-governmental organization in Northern Ireland, Foley became a congressional aide, with included a tenure of employment under future Vice President Joe Biden. He served in the cabinet of Governor Bob Casey as Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry from 1991 to 1994.
In 2000, Foley unsuccessfully challenged Ron Klink for the Democratic nomination for United States Senate.
Klink went on to lose to incumbent Rick Santorum in that November"s election.
Foley ran for state auditor general in 1996 and, despite being the party"s endorsed candidate, lost the Democratic primary to Bob Casey, Junior., the son of the former governor, by less than one percentage point.