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Ronald Ernest ”Ron“ Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American physician, author, Republican United States Congressman, and repeat candidate for President of the United States. He has been an outspoken critic of American foreign and monetary policies, recognized for sharply opposing his own party on many issues. Since 1979, he has been elected to ten terms in the House of Representatives, separated by a hiatus of 12 years, during which Paul returned to his medical practice,[citation needed] and he filled a vacated seat for most of 1976.[citation needed] Since 1997, Paul has represented Texas’s 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest ofHouston that includes Galveston. Paul serves on the House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Financial Services, and on the Joint Economic Committee, as well as chairman of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Paul is a graduate of Gettysburg College and Duke University School of Medicine, where he earned his medical degree. He served as a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force from 1963 until 1968. He worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist during the 1960s and 1970s, delivering more than 4,000 babies, before entering politics in 1976.
Following his 2008 run for the Republican Party presidential nomination, Paul became the initiator of the advocacy group Campaign for Liberty and his ideas have been expressed in numerous published articles and books, including Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom (2011), End The Fed (2009), The Revolution: A Manifesto (2008), Pillars of Prosperity (2008), A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship (2007), and The Case for Gold (1982). His son Rand Paul was elected to the United States Senate for Kentucky in 2010, making the elder Paul the first Representative in history to serve concurrently with a child in the Senate.[3] Paul has been characterized as the “intellectual godfather” of the Tea Party movement.[4][5] He has become well known for hislibertarian ideas on many political issues, often differing from both Republican and Democratic Party stances.
Paul is currently seeking nomination as the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. He campaigned for President of the United States twice before, first during 1988 as the nominee of the Libertarian Party and again during 2008 as a candidate for theRepublican nomination. On May 13, 2011, he announced formally that he would campaign again during 2012 for the Republican presidential nomination.[citation needed] On July 12, 2011, Paul announced that he would refrain from seeking another term in Congress in order to concentrate on his presidential bid.[6] A December 2011 Gallup poll of Americans found Paul to be the most admired man in congress.[7]
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