Only in McLean: Former Presidential Candidate Buys Home from Another Former Presidential Candidate

McLean is no stranger to high-profile government officials, so Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., the former governor of Utah and one-time presidential candidate, should fit right in.

What's a little unusual, maybe even for McLean, is one former presidential candidate purchasing a home from another former presidential candidate.

In this case, Huntsman recently purchased his new McLean home from former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson, for $3.1 million, according to his hometown newspaper, The Salt Lake Tribune.

Huntsman was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential race. He currently heads up the Atlantic Council, a non-partisan think tank near the White House. Will Huntsman run again? "I’m ready and willing and prepared to serve," he told The New York Times last year.

Thompson, 72, an actor and former U.S. senator, ran for president in 2008.

The Ballantrae Farm Drive home comes with seven bedrooms, plenty for the Huntsman family, which includes seven children. 

"It’s a beautiful community," the Huntsmans’ real-estate agent, Lilian Jorgenson, told the newspaper, noting that the late Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and former Secretary of State Colin Powell have lived in the neighborhood. "This is a little more rural [than the Huntsmans’ previous home], and they’re just a few blocks to downtown McLean. [It’s a] half-acre lot with lots of trees, so it’s country."

If you happen to bump into Huntsman out jogging or at the grocery store, be sure to welcome him to the neighborhood and wish him Happy Birthday. He turns 54 on Wednesday.