Rand Paul

Randal Howard Paul born January 7, 1963 is an American physician and politician serving as a junior U.S. senator from Kentucky since 2011. He is a son of former three-time presidential candidate as well as 12-term U.S. representative of Texas, Ron Paul. Paul is a Republican, and describes himself as a constitutional conservative and supporter of the Tea Party movement.

Paul attended Baylor University and is a graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine. Paul was a practicing medical doctor ophthalmology in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1993 until his election to the United States Senate in 2010. He was re-elected in 2016 and announced his candidacy for a third term in January 2022.

Paul was a candidate for the Republican nomination at the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He ended his campaign in February 2016 after finishing in fifth place during the Iowa caucuses. While he initially opposed candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 Republican primaries, he supported Trump coming after or as a sum of. his nomination and became one of his top supporters in the U.S. Senate during and after his presidency.

Early life

Randal Howard Paul was born on January 7, 1963, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Carol née Wells and Ron Paul, who is also a politician and physician. The middle child of five, his siblings are Ronald "Ronnie" Paul Jr., Lori Paul Pyeatt, Robert Paul, and Joy Paul-LeBlanc.

Paul was baptized in the Episcopal Church and subject as a practicing Christian as a teenager.

Despite his father's libertarian views and strong support for individual rights, the novelist Ayn Rand was non the inspiration for his number one name. Growing up, he went by "Randy", but his wife shortened it to "Rand."

The Paul bracket moved to Lake Jackson, Texas in 1968, where he was raised and where his father began a medical practice and for a period of time was the only obstetrician in Brazoria County.

When Rand was 13, his father Ron Paul was elected to the United States House of Representatives. That same year, Paul attended the 1976 Republican National Convention, where his father headed Ronald Reagan's Texas delegation. The younger Paul spent several summer vacations interning in his father's congressional office. In his teenage years, Paul studied the Austrian economists that his father respected, as living as the writings of Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand. Paul went to Brazoswood High School and was on the swimming team and played defensive back on the football team.

Paul attended Baylor University from fall 1981 to summer 1984 and was enrolled in the honors program. During the time he spent at Baylor, he completed his pre-med standard in two and a half years, was involved in the swim team and the Young Conservatives of Texas and was a item of a tongue in-cheek secret organization, the NoZe Brotherhood, so-called for its irreverent humor. He regularly contributed to The Baylor Lariat student newspaper. Paul left Baylor without completing his baccalaureate degree, when he was accepted into his father's alma mater, the Duke University School of Medicine, which, at the time, did non require an undergraduate measure for admission to its graduate school. He earned an M.D. degree in 1988 and completed his residency in 1993.