Rick Santorum, in announcing on Wednesday that he would try for the Republican nomination for the 2016 presidential race, joins a crowded field of political contenders. But it won’t be the first time that the former Pennsylvania Senator and 2012 also-ran has made a splash as part of a large group. When Santorum first made national news, it was in 1994, as an upstart Congressman going to bat for Senator Harris Wofford’s seat.