10 Things You Didn't Know About Rand Paul (US News & World Report)

[bobbyw24]

1 Randal Howard Paul was born on Jan. 7, 1963, in Lake Jackson, Texas. He is the middle of five children born to Ron and Carol Paul. His father, Ron Paul, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1976 and ran for president in 2008.
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2 After graduating from Baylor University, he earned his M.D. from Duke University's medical school in 1988. He completed a general surgery internship at Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta and finished his residency at Duke's Medical Center in 1993.

3 While living in Atlanta, he met his wife, Kelley Ashby Paul. They have been married 19 years and have three sons: William, Duncan, and Robert. They live in Bowling Green, Ky.

4 Paul says he was not named after author Ayn Rand, an icon for libertarians. He says his wife shortened his nickname from Randy.

5 In 1993, he founded the Kentucky Taxpayers Union advocating lower taxes. The group was dissolved on Nov. 1, 2000.

Items 6-10 at:

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2010/06/03/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-rand-paul.html

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Rand Paul was born in Pennsylvania I thought?

 

[bobbyw24]

Rand Paul was born in Pennsylvania I thought?

see-these are things we didn't know about him. LOL

Actually, I don't know where he was born

 

[brandon]

I think it's Kentucky Taxpayers United, not Kentucky Taxpayers Union

 

[BlackTerrel]

3 While living in Atlanta, he met his wife, Kelley Ashby Paul. They have been married 19 years and have three sons: William, Duncan, and Robert. They live in Bowling Green, Ky.

How convenient that she already shared his last name?

 

[Young Paleocon]

Ron was born in Pennsylvania. Rand was born in Texas after the Paul's moved there.

 

[MRoCkEd]

I knew pretty much all of that

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

I knew pretty much all of that

You read Rand Paul's Wikipedia page before too, huh?

 

[freedoms-light]

Rand Paul was born in Pennsylvania I thought?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/paul-carol1.html

According to Carol Paul:

"When the Cuban Crisis came, Ron answered his country's call and became a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force. We received orders to move to San Antonio, Texas. On our way to Texas, we stopped in Pennsylvania long enough to have our third child delivered. Then we gathered up our kids and dogs and took off for Texas."

It would have been Pennsylvania assuming that "He is the middle of five children" statement is true.

 

[KCIndy]

i think it's kentucky taxpayers united, not kentucky taxpayers union

"splitters!!"

 

[sailingaway]

How convenient that she already shared his last name?

Think of the savings on monograms! I mean, I knew the Pauls were frugal....

 

[sirrealpolitik]

"splitters!!"

I thought we were the Taxpayers Popular Front