• Office Sought: Representative, Texas (14)
• Birth Date: Aug. 20, 1935
• Occupation: Physician
• Spouse: Carol Paul
• Religion: Protestant
• Web site: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

Education

• Duke University, MD
• Gettysburg College, BA

Offices and positions held

• U.S. House of Representatives, 14th district of Texas, 1997-present
• U.S. House of Representatives, 22nd district of Texas, 1979-1985
• Libertarian candidate for president, 1988

Military service

• Flight Surgeon, United States Air National Guard, 1965-1968
• Flight Surgeon, United States Air Force, 1963-1965

Businesses Owned, Past Careers, Board Memberships, Etc.

• Practicing physician specializing in obstetrics, 1968-1996
• Distinguished counselor to the Ludwig von Mises Institute

Book(s)

• Challenge to Liberty: The Case for Gold by Ron Paul
• A Republic, If You Can Keep It by Ron Paul

Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and now lives in Lake Jackson, Texas. Paul graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine.

He served in the U.S. Air Force as a flight surgeon and has been an obstetrician and gynecologist practicing near Houston.

He served eight years in the U.S. House as a Republican, from 1977 to 1984, and was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988. He again was elected to the U.S. House in 1996 as a Republican and made a second White House run in 2008.

Paul and his wife, Carol, have five children.