US Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin (R)
Potential 2012 Candidate for President of the United States
Paul Davis Ryan, Jr. (born January 29, 1970) is the US Representative for Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District, serving since 1999. He is a
member of the Republican Party and has been ranked among the party's most influential voices on conservative economic policy.
Born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, Ryan graduated from Miami University and worked as a marketing consultant and an economic analyst. In
the mid-to-late Nineties he worked as an aide to US Senator Bob Kasten, as Legislative Director for Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, and also
as a speech writer for former US Representative and 1996 Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Jack Kemp of New York. Ryan won a 1998 election to
succeed two-term Representative Mark Neumann in the US House.
Ryan is the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, where he played a prominent public role in drafting and promoting the Republican Party's
long-term budget proposal. He introduced the plan, The Path to Prosperity, in April 2011 to counter the budget proposal of President Barack
Obama. Ryan is one of the three co-founders of the Young Guns Program, an electoral recruitment and campaign effort by House Republicans.
At the beginning of June 2011, when asked by Fox News whether he would reconsider his past rejections of a Presidential bid, Ryan hesitated
before responding, "Look, I think I want to see how this field develops."
Sources: huffingtonpost.com, wikipedia.org
