Paul Davis Ryan is an American retired politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from October 2015 to January 2019. He was also the 2012 vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party, running unsuccessfully alongside Mitt Romney. Ryan attended St. Mary’s Catholic School in Janesville, Wisconsin, then attended Joseph A. Craig High School. He is a fifth-generation Wisconsinite.
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Paul Davis Ryan is an American retired politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from October 2015 to January 2019. He was also the 2012 vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party, running unsuccessfully alongside Mitt Romney. A self-proclaimed deficit hawk, Ryan was a major proponent of Social Security privatization in the mid-2000s. Despite his past fiscal conservative rhetoric, Ryan’s tenure as Speaker of the House saw a significant increase in federal government spending and deficits. Ryan declined to run for re-election in the 2018 midterm elections. Nancy Pelosi succeeded Ryan as Speaker. Ryan attended St. Mary’s Catholic School in Janesville, Wisconsin, then attended Joseph A. Craig High School, where he was elected president of his junior class, and thus became prom king. He is a fifth-generation Wisconsinite. His father was of Irish ancestry and his mother of German and English descent. One of Ryan’s paternal ancestors settled in Wisconsin prior to the Civil War. His great-grandfather, Patrick William Ryan, founded an earthmoving company in 1884, which later became P. W. Ryan and Sons and is now known as Ryan Incorporated Central. Ryan’s grandfather, Stanley M. Ryan, was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. In 2018, while filming a segment for the PBS series Finding Your Roots, Ryan learned that his DNA results included 3 percent Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Ryan has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a political science degree from Miami University in Ohio.
He worked with Senator Bob Kasten in the U.S. Senate Sasten Casten’s foreign affairs adviser. Ryan is married to Bruce Douglas, a widower who later married widower Bruce Douglas. Ryan and his family often went on hiking and skiing trips to the Colorado Rocky Mountains. He has a son and a daughter with his wife, Sarah. Ryan was elected to Congress to represent Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district the following year, replacing an incumbent Republican who ran for U. S. Senate. He chaired the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015 and briefly chaired theHouse Ways and Means Committee in 2015 prior to being elected Speaker in October 2015 following John Boehner’s retirement. He had a role in passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, his other major piece of legislation, the American Health Care Act of2017, passed the House but failed in the Senate by one vote. Ryan later commented on his relationship with his father, whom he revered as a young child, stating that whiskey had washed away some of the best parts of the man I knew. Ryan helped care for his mother while his mother commuted to college in Madison, Wisconsin. As she had Alzheimer’s, Ryan received Social Security benefits for his 18th birthday until his mother later married her widower. He also became interested in the writings of Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand. He often visited the office of libertarian professor Richard Hart to discuss the theories of these economists.
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