Rand Paul

Paul married Kelley Paul in 1990. Kelley is a freelance writer. The couple have three children.

Paul is deaf in one ear.

He currently lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Randal Howard Paul was born on January 7, 1963, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Carol and Ron Paul. His father, Ron, is a politician and a physician.

Ron is also a former US representative of Texas who ran for the presidential elections thrice. Rand was the third of the five children born to his parents.

Although, he was born in Pittsburgh, Rand was raised in Lake Jackson, Texas. His father, for a long time, was the only obstetrician in Brazoria County.

He went to ‘Brazoswood High School.’ While in school, he played as a defensive back on the football team and was also quite interested in swimming.

Rand’s interest in politics was evident when he started interning at in his father’s office after he was elected to the ‘US House of Representatives.’ Paul also attended the 1976 ‘Republican National Convention.’ He also read about economists and studied the writings of Ayn Rand.

Rand interned at the ‘Georgia Baptist Medical Center’ in Atlanta, Georgia. After completing his residency, he bagged a job with John Downing of the ‘Downing McPeak Vision Centers.’ and moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky.

He then joined the ‘Graves Gilbert Clinic’ in Bowling Green and continued working there for 10 years, before starting his own practice. During his medical career, he also performed free eye surgeries for poor people in developing countries. In 1997, he established the ‘National Board of Ophthalmology’ (NBO) as a protest against the ‘American Board of Ophthalmology’ (ABO) board-certification process. The ‘ABO’ had changed its policy and had started providing certificates that were valid for 10 years instead of a lifetime, and the ‘NBO’ challenged this decision.

The ‘NBO’ was incorporated in 1999 but was dissolved in 2000, after the failure of filing certain paperwork with the ‘Kentucky Secretary of State’s Office.’ It was recreated in 2005, only to be dissolved again in 2011.

In 2009, he established the ‘Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic,’ a non profit organization that treated under-privileged people with eye conditions.

Rand’s political involvement began when he was 13 years old, and he often spent time in his father’s office. He was also the head of the local chapter of the ‘Young Conservatives of Texas’ at ‘Baylor University.’

In 1994, he founded ‘Kentucky Taxpayers United,’ an anti-tax group, after President Bush broke his election promise of not raising taxes. In 1996, he campaigned for his father’s run in the congressional elections, where his father defeated Greg Laughlin, who was supported by the ‘National Republican Congressional Committee’ (NRCC), along with leaders such as George W Bush.

A lifelong ‘Republican,’ Rand started getting involved in real politics in 2009, when he gave a speech in support of the ‘Tea Party Movement,’ as a potential candidate during one of the ‘Tea Party’ rallies. He then announced his run for the ‘US Senate’ as a ‘Republican.’ He won by defeating Trey Grayson.

He immediately started preparing to face Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway. However, his statement about the ‘Civil Rights Act of 1964’ being too broad and his questions about its constitutionality invited a lot of controversy.

He defeated Conway in the general election and was sworn in as Kentucky’s junior senator on July 5, 2011. Since the beginning of his term, he has worked on issues such as health, education, small businesses, reduction of social security benefits, and reduction in federal debt.