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Caption

The caption on the last picture on the right says "Ryan with his wife and family" - I am pretty sure his wife counts as family. --2A0A:A543:CE4B:0:76D4:35FF:FE03:2B7E (talk) 06:01, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Paul Ryan, Wisconsin United States Republican Federal Senator

Paul Davis Ryan born January 29, 1970 is an American politician serving as Wisconsin's United States Senator who served as Majority Leader of the Senate from 2014 to 2017. Ryan was first elected to the Senate in 2000 and has been re-elected three times since. During the 1998 and 2000 election cycles, he was on the National Republican Senatorial Committee. In November 2003, he was elected Senate Majority Leader. Ryan has been known as a conservative Republican in his political career.

Ryan, a native of Janesville, Wisconsin, graduated from Miami University in 1992. He spent five years working for Republicans in Washington, D.C. and returned to Wisconsin in 1997 to work at his family's construction company.

Early life and education Paul Davis Ryan was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, the youngest of four children of Elizabeth "Betty" Ann (née Hutter),[2] who later became an interior designer, and Paul Murray Ryan, a lawyer.[3][4] He is a fifth-generation Wisconsinite. His father was of Irish ancestry and his mother of German and English descent.[5] One of Ryan's paternal ancestors settled in Wisconsin prior to the Civil War.[6] His great-grandfather, Patrick William Ryan, founded an earth moving company in 1884, which later became P. W. Ryan and Sons and is now known as Ryan Incorporated Central.[7][8] Ryan's grandfather, Stanley M. Ryan, was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.[9][10].

Ryan attended St. Mary's Catholic School in Janesville, then attended Joseph A. Craig High School,[12] where he was elected president of his junior class, and thus became prom king.[13] As class president Ryan was a representative of the student body on the school board.[14] Following his second year, Ryan took a job working the grill at McDonald's.[14] He was on his high school's ski, track, and varsity soccer teams and played basketball in a Catholic recreational league.[15][16][17] He participated in several academic and social clubs including the Model United Nations.[14][15] Ryan and his family often went on hiking and skiing trips to the Colorado Rocky Mountains.[18][10]

Ryan has a bachelor of science degree in economics and political science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio,[25] where he became interested in the writings of Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman.[14] He often visited the office of libertarian professor Richard Hart to discuss the theories of these economists and of Ayn Rand.[14][26] Hart introduced Ryan to National Review,[14] and with Hart's recommendation Ryan began an internship in the D.C. office of Wisconsin U.S. Senator Bob Kasten, where he worked with Kasten's foreign affairs adviser.[14][27]

Ryan attended the Washington Semester program at American University.[28] He worked summers as a salesman for Oscar Mayer and once got to drive the Wienermobile.[10][26][29] Ryan was a member of the College Republicans,[30] and volunteered for the congressional campaign of John Boehner.[26] He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta social fraternity.[31] Zoe Durning (talk) 06:13, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Could you, uh, please elaborate on what it is that you are trying to get changed? Xenologer48 (talk) 21:02, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Not retired

Why does the article lead say that he is retired? He is 50 years old and still working. Just because he isn't in congress anymore doesn't mean that he is hardly retired.

The article doesn't suggest that he has ever any other career other than politician- he went into politics straight out of college. He is retired from Congress, and the article doesn't indicate what he is doing now aside from a corporate board and a few special assignments. If we had some other profession for him, some other way in which he "is working", the lead could say "is an American politician and whateverelsehedoes." But right now "politician" is all we have, and he isn't in office or running for office any more. -- MelanieN (talk) 19:49, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

2024 election

Hello mr ryan run for president of 2024 and you're running mate is marco rubio 49.147.192.191 (talk) 12:40, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Article structure

I’m afraid to be WP:BOLD, but shouldn’t the sections Speaker of the House and 2012 vice presidential campaign be switched? At present, Pre-Speaker congressional tenure (1999–2015), despite its title, ends with something in 2012; then there is the section about his 2015–2019 speakership, including the 2016 election; then we’re back to the 2012 election. 93.19.248.151 (talk) 14:07, 15 November 2022 (UTC)