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Paul Ryan in Washington Week with the Atlantic (1967)

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Paul Ryan

  • His father, a lawyer, was a friend of Sen. Russ Feingold and they shared an office in Janesville, Wisconsin.
  • Has worked as a waiter, fitness trainer and for Oscar Mayer (has even driven the Weinermobile).
  • While in Washington he sleeps on a cot in his Longworth House office.
  • Went on the genealogy show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr and found out that through his mother's German ancestry he has a small amount of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. According to Dr Gates "You could have knocked him over with a feather.".
  • U.S. Representative (R-Wisconsin) (1998 - present).
  • Graduated with a B.A. from Miami University, Ohio, in 1992.
  • U.S. House Budget Committee chairman.
  • Chairman, Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
  • Former aide (legislative director, 1995-1997) to U.S. Senator Sam Brownback.
  • Selected as Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate on August 11, 2012.
  • Was voted prom king and class president in high school.
  • Was the speechwriter for Jack Kemp's vice-presidential campaign in 1996.
  • His father died in 1986, when Paul was age 16.
  • His father was of Irish descent. His mother was of approximately one quarter English and three quarters German ancestry.
  • Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.[June 2017].
  • He is related (via marriage) to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson . Ryan's sister-in-law, Dana, is married to William Jackson, the twin brother of Justice Brown Jackson's husband, Patrick.
  • Father of Liza, Charlie and Sam.
  • U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman.
  • Youngest of four children of Elizabeth Ann (Hutter) and Paul Murray Ryan. His great-grandfather founded an earthmoving company, P. W. Ryan and Sons, now Ryan Incorporated Central.
  • His children's names: Liza, Charles, and Sam.

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