Ron Paul is an American author, doctor, and politician born in 1935 who served as a Republican congressman from 1976-77 and 1979-2013. He ran for president three times as the Libertarian candidate in 1988 and Republican candidate in 2008 and 2012. Paul advocates for personal and economic freedom with a libertarian view of limited government and non-interventionism. His political career and activism have promoted free market principles and civil liberties. However, some controversial newsletters published under his name in the 1980s-90s contained racist, anti-Semitic, and conspiratorial statements he later disowned.

1. Dr. Ron Paul
A Biography
By Jonathan Jennings

2. Contents
1. Who is Ron Paul?
2. What is a Libertarian?
3. Dr. Paul’s Timeline
4. Dr. Paul’s Early Life
5. Dr. Paul’s Political Career
6. Dr. Paul’s U.S. Presidential Election Results (1988,
2008-12)
7. U.S. Presidential Elections (1988, 2008-12)
8. Dr. Paul’s Activism
9. Newsletters Controversies
10. Ron Paul Quotes
11. Dr. Paul’s Family, Colleagues & Supporters
12. Sources

3. Who is Ron Paul?
American author, doctor &
politician
Born 20th August 1935 in
Green Tree, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Elected to the House of
Representatives as a
Republican (1976-77, 1979-
85 & 1997-2013)
Stood for the Presidency
three times (1988, 2008 &
2012)
Stands on the libertarian
wing of the Republican
Party
Was the official candidate of
the Libertarian Party in the
1988 Presidential Election

4. What is a Libertarian?
(adj.) One who advocates
maximising individuals rights
and minimising the role of the
state; One who believes in
free will.
The notion that other people
are not your property.
The polar opposite of
communism / fascism
(cohesion).
One who believes in economic
and personal freedom (a free
market of goods and ideas,
autonomy over one’s own body
etc.)
All taxation is theft!
18-19th century classical
liberalism (as opposed to
modern social liberalism).

5. Dr. Paul’s Timeline
1961:
1957:
20.8.1935: 1957: Earned his 7.1.1963:
Graduated from
Born in Married degree from His son Rand
Gettysburg College
Pittsburgh wife Carol Duke University’s is born
(Biology)
School of Medicine
1974: 1963:
1976: 1968: 1965:
First stood Joined the
Won and lost Set up his own Joined the
for election U.S.A.F
his seat in medical practice U.S. Air National
to the as a
Congress in Texas Guard
U.S. Congress flight surgeon
1988:
1976: 1984:
1978-82: 1987: Third in Presidential
Founded Failed in his bid
Re-elected Resigned from the poll as the
FREE and his first to stand election
to Congress Republican party Libertarian Party
newsletter for the Senate
candidate
2008 & 2012:
2010: 1996:
2013: 2008 to present: Failed to gain
Rand Re-elected
Retired from Founder / Chairman the Republican
is elected to Congress
Congress of the C4L nomination for
to the Senate as a Republican
the Presidency

6. Dr. Paul’s Early Life
As a child he helped out in his family dairy business,
worked as a paperboy and later at a drug store
(pharmacy).
In high school, he was a member of the track and field
and wrestling teams and served as student council
president.
He met his wife Carol at high school and they married in
his final year of college.
Attended Duke University School of Medicine (graduated
in 1961). Had an internship at Henry Ford Hospital
(Detroit, Michigan).
Was a doctor in the U.S.A.F. (1963-5) and U.S. Air
National Guard (1965-8).
Opened his own practice in Texas and is said to have
delivered over 4,000 babies during his medical career.

7. Dr. Paul’s Political Career
Lost his first election bid in 1974.
First stint in Congress lasted only
months.
Wrote books on economic theory,
advocating a return to the Gold
Standard.
Gold, Peace and Prosperity: The
Birth of a New Currency, 1981.
The Case for Gold: A Minority
Report of the U.S. Gold
Commission, 1982.
Wrote about his pro-life and anti-
government views in Abortion and
Liberty (1983) and Liberty
Defined (2011).
Wants to reduce the burden of
taxation by reducing the size of ‘big’
government and opposes the war
on drugs.

8. Dr. Paul’s U.S. Presidential
Election Results (1988, 2008-12)
Election 1988 2008 2012
Number 431,750 42,426 26,204
of votes
% of the 0.47% 0.04% 0.02%
vote

9. U.S. Presidential Elections
(1988, 2008-12)
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69,498,516
65,907,213
60,000,000
60,931,767
59,948,323
50,000,000
Democrat
48,886,097
Votes
40,000,000 41,809,074 Candidate
30,000,000 Republican
431,750
42,426
26,204
20,000,000 Candidate
Dr. Ron Paul
10,000,000
0
1988 2008 2012
Campaigns

10. Dr. Paul’s Activism
“The intellectual godfather” of the Tea Party
movement.
Founded and has served as the Chairman of the
Campaign for Liberty (C4L) since June 2008.
Signed with the Greater Talent Network speakers’
bureau to talk about freedom, liberty and the state of
the union.
Supported the Occupy Movement of 2011-2.
Created the Foundation for Rational Economics
and Education (FREE) in 1976 to promote free-
market principles.
Published a series of political and investment-related
newsletters under his name from 1978 until the mid-
1990s.

11. Newsletters Controversies
Dr. Paul’s newsletters contained a series of controversial statements
about homosexuals, African-Americans, Jews and conspiracy theories
between 1988 and 1994.
Martin Luther King Jr. is described as a paedophile and a “lying
socialist satyr”.
Questioned whether the Israeli Mossad were behind the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing.
Claims “that AIDS is a deliberately engineered hybrid” virus
developed by the World Health Organisation.
Paraphrases an ex-cop’s following advice: “If you use a gun on a
youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the
wiped-off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of
course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through
the classifieds, for example)”.
Originally took personal responsibility for many of these statements, or
claimed he had been taken out of context during his 1996
Congressional election campaign.
Later denied authorship during the 2008 Presidential Republican
candidate primaries.

12. Ron Paul Quotes
“Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to
protect liberty – not to run your personal life, not to run
the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the
world how they ought to live.”
“Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple.”
“You want to get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine,
let’s just get rid of all the drug laws.”
“A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat
money manipulated by a central bank.”
“When one gets into bed with government, one must
expect the diseases it spreads.”
“Government is the enemy of liberty. Government
should be very restrained.
“Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is
required in self-defence.”

13. Dr. Paul’s Family, Colleagues &
Supporters

14. Sources
Dr. Ron Paul, Liberty Defined: 50
Essential Issues That Affect Our
Freedom (New York, Grand Central
Publishing, 2011) – Non-ICT source
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