Doctors You Didn't Know Were Republican

Ron Paul

Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1935. He attended Gettysburg College and received a Bachelor's in Biology in 1957 before attending Duke University and receiving his medical degree in 1961. From 1963 to 1965, Ron Paul served in the United States Air Force as a flight surgeon. He also served as a flight surgeon in the Air National Guard from 1965 to 1968. Ron Paul opened his practice in obstetrics and gynecology after settling down in Brazoria County, Texas, in 1968. Ron Paul entered politics when the Bretton Woods exchange system was abolished by President Nixon in 1971. Ron Paul won a seat in the House Of Representatives in 1974 but lost it in the next general election. He gained his Republican seat in the House Of Representatives back and completed several terms from 1976 to 1977, 1979 to 1985, and 1997 to 2013. Ron Paul ran as a Libertarian candidate in the presidential election of 1988 but stuck with his party affiliation of being a Republican when he returned to the House Of Representatives in 1997. Ron Paul retired from his seat in the House Of Representatives at seventy-seven years old.

Although Ron Paul was never a part of Congress during President Donald Trump's term, he has expressed several points of view on political issues that align directly with those of President Donald Trump. Ron Paul is opposed, like Donald Trump, to allowing abortions to be legal unless maternal life is endangered and does not support a socialized healthcare system for the United States.

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